Facebook的新爆发点

雷声大雨点大 大学士 | Blog

是。前两天和几个搞投资的朋友，说起要用linked建一个组，有人立刻说facebook可能是更好的选择。。。

09/01/2007

ewine 状元 | Blog

我是在ProQuest数据库上找到的。原文如下：

FACEBOOK'S  NEW  WRINKLES;
The  35-and-older  crowd  is  discovering  its  potential  as  a  business  tool
By  Robert  D.  Hof.  Business  Week.  New  York:  Aug  20,  2007.
Maybe  you've  gotten  one  of  them  in  your  e-mail  in-box  lately:  an  invitation  to  be  a  "friend"  on  the  social  networking  Web  site  Facebook.  And  you've  wondered:  Why  would  I  want  to  join  a  bunch  of  partying  college  kids?  That  was  what  Bill  Swartz,  a  51-year-old  executive  recruiter  in  Phoenix,  thought  until  a  few  weeks  ago,  when  he  dived  into  Facebook  after  reading  a  newspaper  column  about  it.  To  his  surprise,  he  loves  it--especially  the  updates  his  contacts  post  regularly  about  their  everyday  activities,  even  things  as  mundane  as  where  they're  vacationing  or  what  they  ate  for  lunch.  For  Swartz,  that's  insight  into  the  personalities  of  potential  clients  and  headhunting  prospects.  "My  business  is  personality-matching,"  he  says.  "This  can  really  help  me  find  just  the  right  people."
Facebook  has  a  lot  of  newbies  these  days,  many  of  whom  are  in  fact  oldies.  The  number  of  unique  Facebook  visitors  35  and  older  more  than  doubled  in  June  from  a  year  ago,  to  11.5  million,  according  to  market  researcher  comScore  Media  Metrix.  (Anyone  going  to  the  Facebook.com  site  counts  as  a  visitor.  But  to  have  a  page  or  have  friends,  you  need  to  join.)  Most  newcomers  aren't  yet  doing  much  real  business  there,  preferring  more  buttoned-down  sites  like  LinkedIn  or  e-mail  for  maintaining  professional  contacts.  But  they're  intrigued  enough  with  the  communications  potential  of  Facebook  that  they  now  make  up  41%  of  the  site's  visitors.  That's  a  boost  for  privately  held  Facebook,  whose  widely  presumed  multibillion-dollar  valuation  is  based  on  the  potential  appeal  to  advertisers  seeking  big  new  audiences  online.
As  they  join  Facebook,  older  users  are  tiptoeing  into  a  new  social  landscape.  Among  the  tough  questions:  How  much  personal  information  should  I  reveal?  What  does  it  mean  to  be  a  "friend,"  and  how  many  can  I  have  before  I'm  overwhelmed  with  requests  and  information?  And  not  least,  what's  a  "poke"?  (Just  what  it  sounds  like:  a  vaguely  suggestive  signal  that  someone  wants  your  attention.)  "The  lines  between  what's  business  and  what's  personal  have  blurred,"  says  Facebook  co-founder  and  CEO  Mark  Zuckerberg,  23.
Nonetheless,  the  new  demographic  presages  a  sea  change  in  social  networking.  Even  if  younger  people  don't  feel  the  need  to  distinguish  between  personal  and  professional  contacts,  anyone  over  about  30  usually  does.  Facebook  allows  people  some  control  over  what  information  they  reveal  to  whom,  but  it's  likely  Facebook's  new  demographic  will  demand  even  more  ways  to  differentiate  between  various  levels  of  "friends."  (Level  one:  ex-dorm  buddies,  girlfriends.  Level  two:  sales  contacts,  fantasy-league  teammates.  Level  three:  anyone  who  signs  off  on  your  performance  review.)
This  influx  doesn't  thrill  all  the  20-something  pioneers,  who  are  starting  to  feel  inhibited  by  the  older  folks  looking  over  their  shoulders.  Some  anti-elder  groups  have  emerged  on  Facebook,  many  clearly  humorous  but  others  with  names  such  as  "I  hate  old  people"  and  "Kill  the  elderly."  Regardless,  "old  people"  are  piling  in  and  weaving  Facebook  into  lives  already  glutted  with  information  and  relationships.  "I  don't  want  to  be  left  out,"  says  Bernard  H.  Tenenbaum,  51-year-old  managing  partner  of  investment  firm  China  Cat  Capital.
They're  also  finding  real  utility.  They  can  build  social  capital  with  little  effort  just  by  noticing  that  a  contact  has  posted  an  update  about  her  birthday  today  and  wishing  her  well.  Eric  Jackson,  CEO  of  management  consultant  Jackson  Leadership  Systems  Inc.  in  Naples,  Fla.,  who's  leading  shareholder  campaigns  to  shift  strategies  at    Yahoo!  Inc.  and    Motorola  Inc.,  says  he  used  Facebook  to  reach  some    Yahoo  employees  he  couldn't  otherwise  find.
Some  of  those  older  people,  it  must  be  said,  are  rather  less  social  than  they  appear.  Carl  Kasell,  the  73-year-old  National  Public  Radio  newscaster  and  judge  on  the  NPR  quiz  show  Wait  Wait...  Don't  Tell  Me,  has  "friended"  dozens  of  people.  Or  so  it  seemed.  It  turns  out  the  show's  23-year-old  director,  Melody  Joy  Kramer,  actually  runs  his  Facebook  page.  "Carl  only  looks  at  it  every  Thursday,"  she  says.  "He  doesn't  really  use  a  computer."  Fortunately  for  Facebook,  Kasell  seems  the  exception.

09/01/2007

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09/07/2007