The choices are numerous, and the opinions about which is best are diverse.
LinkedIn: Touted as the “grown-up” MySpace, I’ve struggled to find a useful purpose for LinkedIn except to just build my list of contacts. There has been a rare occasion that I’ve used LinkedIn because I lost an email address… so I guess that’s good.
Facebook: Not just for college kids anymore. I highly recommend making sure your Profile is up to date and you monitor your wall and news feed carefully. Lots of people are on Facebook now that it’s opened up to the general public. I read a great post here that got me thinking about how I could better use this resource.
MyRagan: The PR social network, I think it’s got a lot of value, particularly in the forums and message boards. I’m not as active on it as I was initially, but on occasional login I see that the forums and message boards are extremely active. The site boasts more than 7500 members.
Those seem to be the big three. Are there others you’re using?
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I agree. LinkedIn seems rather limited. Although I have been able to get in contact with a few people that have been helpful.
Facebook til I die. However, I have yet to “professionalize” my page. I do have my settings relatively private though so people I don’t know wont be able to access my page.
I will have to check out MyRagan. However, it seems like I am a member at so many social networking sites, something is going to have to give here!