You call this networking?
Since Facebook now seems to be the default means of following up with someone you just met at a conference, I’ve been getting a ton of requests to add various new friends.
It’s been so hard to resist the temptation to fill this pane out in a way that would get people talking…
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I have had the same temptation with Facebook. It would be nice to see the options expanded a bit since it is no longer a student-focused service.
I recently had an older male blogger add me on Facebook and then informed me through this feature that ‘we hooked up’ at a British pub.
We did have a nice lunch… but I only had two beers and it would have required plenty more for us to firstly ‘hook up’ and then for me to not remember it.
I put it down to a cross generational and cultural communication gap (and hopefully not a result of horse tranquilizers…)
I don’t really see what image do you put there. It looks blur to me. however, facebook is one of the fastest growing social networking on net.
To which a bystander might reply, “that must’ve been one HELL of a conference!”
My wife and I had to take a compatibility test when we got married. It was a Catholic Church requirement and the priest reviewed the results with us (have fun with THAT sentence).
But you can imagine the temptation to do the same thing on that test.