LinkedIn is a social networking website designed for
business professionals. It allows you to share work-related information with
other users and keep an online list of professional contacts. Like Facebook
and MySpace, LinkedIn allows you to create a
custom profile. However, profiles created within LinkedIn are business-oriented
rather than personal. Overall, it is a very handy website for interacting with
other business professionals to network and expand your horizons.
The
main use of LinkedIn is for business. The website allows you to keep in touch
with colleagues both past and present, which can be very useful. Along with
having current partners you can connect with new potential business partners. These
new business partners can allow you to be more successful and reach out to
others to help not only yourself, but also the business you will be interacting
with. It isn’t a personal website; however people can view your résumé and see
what kind of business you are in. This is very important if you are trying to
expand your business. It is also a great website for people in business because
it is used by millions of business professionals. There aren’t many downfalls
to this website, but the one downfall is that if you do use personal information
it could leave a negative impact on your one profile and lower your chances of
getting a job.
LinkedIn
doesn’t have a real big social impact. The positive is that the users can in
interact with businesses like previously stated for the business aspect of the
website. And the negative is that there is no real social interaction allowed
on the site.
Regarding
entertainment the website can be useful. This website can be a way to break
into the entertainment industry. You can be picked up by a large entertainment company
for a variety of jobs. Usually for the entertainment business you need to know
someone to get a job, but with this website you have the ability to get a job
purely based on your abilities. The negative part of this website of LinkedIn for
the entertainment industry is that it can be very difficult to get a job this
way. Like I said before, getting a job this way is possible, but if you really
want to get a job in this industry this isn’t the way to do it.
The
news in general isn’t affected or used by this website. Also the recreational
aspect of the website is almost nonexistent. The only way that LinkedIn can be
used in these fields is if you are trying to find a job. This isn’t the site
for wasting time on or looking of fun things to do this weekend.
Overall
LinkedIn is a great website for anyone who is looking for a job. It will let
you reach out to people if you need someone to work for you also. It is purely
business based and is very useful for many individuals.
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