> It seems to mainly be a vehicle for delivering movie quizzes.

Only if you want it to be. Facebook is really quite flexible — and it’s simple too. I think it’s currently the best way for most people to create a web page about themselves and to find others.

I can’t really say much for Linkedin. I’m on it, but I’ve only visited the site to accept connection requests. It is certainly more oriented towards job seeking and business relationships.

I have not found LinkedIn particularly useful professionally. I’m on it but like Stephen only to accept connection requests.Other people have told me they have gotten job queries from it though. I don’t know what they’re doing that I’m not necessarily.

Facebook - I dunno - it is a LOT of fun but I can’t see that any of it is professional. I play Scrabulous, superpoke my friends, get told that I look like a cat, figure out all the places in the world I’ve been, and match up words to protect the rainforest. Excellent way to waste time!

LinkedIn ramped up first among my crew - both professional and personal connections. But Facebook is the Obama of the two - it surged out of nowhere and now it seems more people I know are on that. Probably just to play quizzes and conquer the world though.

My brother (who is in the tech world) tells me people he know use Facebook for their primary email nowadays because there is no spam. I wouldn’t do that because I can’t see any way to organize the InBox.

Put another way - I’m on Facebook all the time. Linked In I look at maybe once a week.