It’s been a year since I signed up for Facebook so I figured it was time to provide an update. The Facebook network has a lot of folks I can’t find on LinkedIn, particularly friends from college and high school. There’s probably an interesting study in there somewhere to see how career paths, areas of the country and other factors influence which network you use or if you use both or none.
Growth of my Facebook network as has also been pretty good: I’ve gone from 0 to 160 friends in 365 days or about one new connection every 2.28 days. Reasonably rapid given I haven’t really done a lot of trolling around looking for people. I have also noticed a lot of friends have popped up when I search for my high school or college classes. A year ago, there was just a handful. Now there are dozens, so the timing of my joining Facebook seems to have coincided with that of many others.
Other than creating connections, I really don’t do a lot on Facebook. I have a few applications loaded, but don’t play around with them much. I’ve found the most basic features (like access to contact info and Groups) the most useful as a huge swath of the applications are really just for killing time. And when I’m ready to kill time, there’s many other things I’d rather do than issue a SuperPoke or sent virtual cocktails.
Still, if you don’t already have a Facebook profile, give it a whirl. It’s nice to reconnect with folks to learn where they are and what they are doing.
