Difference between Linked in and the Facebook

FACEBOOK AND THE LINKED IN

Synopsis:

1)    Introduction

2)    Facebook

3)    Linked in

4)    Differences between them

5)    Conclusion

Introduction:

                             There are many social media sites for communicating and buiding our relationship between ourselves. The famous two social media sites are the Facebook and the LinkedIn. In this I am going to say about Facebook and the Linked in. While these both are used to connect people online but differently by their own features and the functionality.

                             All these comes under the social networking sites are services. These social networking sites are used to provide an web based tool to let people build their own profile and interact with others. These  includes Instant messages ,Chart rooms, E-mail or site group discussion. mail, blogs file sharing, video.

FACEBOOK:

                   The Facebook is used to connect with the verity people that are your friends, relatives and friends in school, classmates, and etc.

Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.

When you join Facebook and create a profile, you will enter in key information which can help other people find you on Facebook. This includes; Basic information like name, birthday, hometown, political and religious views. In your profile you can also include contact information, your relationship details (married, single, and so on), and personal details such as your favorite teams, shows, movies, and books. Facebook also provides options for users to include education and work details.

Networks: When you join Facebook you can join a regional network to connect with people in your own area. Other types of networks you can join are based on a company or school.

    Facebook Applications: Applications on Facebook are small programs that users can install to their profile. These can be anything from blog interfaces to games, instant messaging, shopping lists and more. Other can often see notes about your applications and what you are doing in it on your profile. Also, your profile will also include boxes which contain the application.

    Facebook Photos: Facebook users can create online photo albums which can be viewed from their profile.

    Facebook Video: Users can upload and tag videos to share on their Facebook profile.

Linked in:

                             Linked in is also one of the most important social networking sites where we build our profile based upon our curriculum . This linked in is used as a business oriented sites where you create a file which is exactly our current position and your previous experience of the work.

                   These are used to upload the professional information and connect with the collogues On the LinkedIn site you create a network that consists of "connections". Connections on LinkedIn are the people you know, and connections expand to include the people they know and have connected with on LinkedIn.  

1)         Recommendations: You can recommend colleagues, business partners or service providers and share your recommendations on your profile. When others view those profiles they can read the recommendations.

2)      Contacts: You can search and add contacts individually or simply import your Outlook or Web mail contacts from Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail or AOL to search for contacts on LinkedIn.

3)      LinkedIn Search: You can search for people by name, by company or by industry.

4)      LinkedIn Jobs: A job search, powered by Simply Hired enables you to search for jobs. Here, your LinkedIn connections, your profile updates, plus any recommendations can help you when making contact with a person who has listed a job posting you're interested in.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM:

The main difference between them is Linked in is used for a professional issues, but while rest other can be given in the Facebook.

             LinkedIn is designed more for business and professional networking and offers a profile and options to network in a business sense. Facebook, on the other hand is designed more to connect family and friends. When you want to know where an old colleague is working now, you use LinkedIn. When you want to find out if that same colleague is married and if they have kids, you use Facebook.

Conclusion:

                       Here by I conclude that , the usage of time in Facebook is more than the usage in the linked in  but for the carrier purpose the linked in will the the best one for us. So please consider the linked as the very important one it can change even your life style also.