To infinite recruitment and beyond. - Social Networki

A great post on the Utah SEO Pro blog by Jordan Kasteler  has highlighted what is now inevitable - the march of social networking into mainstream society. He found a college in the USA that is now studying social networking and even producing exams in it as well!! Below is an example some of the questions put to the students...(I know you will know the answers but just in case Jason has provided the links!)

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1. A ______ is a social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, idea, financial exchange, friends, kinship, dislike, conflict, trade, web links, sexual relations, disease transmission, (epidemiology), or airline routes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network
2. What is social networking trying to do? Most of the applications so far offer one or more of eight features or functionalities. https://blog.fastcompany.com/archives/2006/08/15/social_networking_a_status_report.html
3. Lots of people have opinion about Twitter, ranging from a complete waste of time to the indispensable connector with your community. What is Twitter? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter or https://twitter.com/
4. What is an RSS feed? https://www.fastcompany.com/about/rss.html and https://www.whatisrss.com/
5. They use video and paper to make complex ideas easy to understand. They present subjects “in plain English” using short, unique and understandable videos in a format called Paperworks. https://www.commoncraft.com/
6. Be familiar with the following Social Networks:

• iLike - https://ilike.com
• MySpace - https://www.myspace.com
• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com
• YouTube - https://www.youtube.com
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com

Let's hope that it isn't too long before we see this in the UK soon!!