Linkedin on Facebook?… At least there is a Linkedin Facebook Group
Published by Rodney Rumford June 13th, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, Facebook Trends, facebook developer, facebook widgets.
So there is not an official facebook Linkedin application (yet) for this much needed way to bring your Linkedin contacts over to facebook. We feel that that there is a huge opportunity to actually move your contacts over to facebook and communicate with your Linkedin network on facebook in a more compelling, useful and complete way. Are you developers listening?
It is interesting and worthy to note that there are already over 1600 members to the “Linkedin Group” over at facebook. We keep seeing this trend resurfacing where social network users (from other networks such as Linkedin) are organically migrating and gathering on facebook.
Crossover demographics between the 2 services: I have exactly 200 connections on Linkedin (all business professionals and people that I know in the real world). 32 were already facebook members (16%). The majority of these people are over 35 years old. In the time it took me to write this blog post; 6 people that I invited joined facebook. 
The facebook demographic is rapidly trending older (very unscientific data I realize; but in my world that is sure the way it looks).
We do know of an easy way to get your Linkedin Connections into Facebook in 2 minutes flat.
Click on Contacts (after you have logged into your Linkedin account)
Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on “export connections”
Download the file as a CSV (Outlook) and save to your desktop
Login to Facebook
Click on Find Friends
Click on “email Applications” and upload the saved CSV file
If you have any contacts on facebook from Linkedin, facebook will find them and display them and give you the option of inviting them to be your facebook friend; and send them an invite for you. Works like a champ! It will also invite all the other people that are not yet members of facebook from your Linkedin connections… Can you see the exponential growth coming?
Linkedin Contacts that are already facebook members
Linkedin contacts that were just invited to facebook by me.
Check out the Facebook Applications Group as well.
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3 Responses to “Linkedin on Facebook?… At least there is a Linkedin Facebook Group”
- 1 Pingback on Jun 28th, 2007 at 6:46 am
I think, there will be a slow and sure shift from LinkedIn to Facebook for the social aspect. But if you want a powerhouse networking [professional and recruiters], for atleast 2 more years, i think its still LinkedIn.
I threw in a Q about adding a photo to the LinkedIn profile. Most people felt that it would detract from the purpose.
So I think its still 20-80. But if there is sufficient exodus, then people at LinkedIn may sit up and take notice, or better still if theres a marriage in the offing between facebook and linkedIn..
If you’re interested, we have a new FB app named LinkedIn Contacts (http://apps.facebook.com/ssmlinkedin/) that allows you to view and share your linkedin contacts from within FB.