Link To Me, I Need a Job

There a dozens of different ways to use LinkedIn, from improving connect-ability to increasing the relevancy of your job search. Just look at Guy Kawasaki or The Mashable Social Media Guide or even the LinkedIn Learning Center.

If you don't have a LinkedIn account already, get one. This social media is specifically to help build people's career. It's like a resume online for everyone to see. By connecting with people (friends, students, colleagues, prospective employers, groups, etc...) you have more of an opportunity to network for future job.

Link to me!

We Will Find You

Mobile Social Network Software, or MoSoSo, is down right scary. According "Students' New Best Friend: 'MoSoSo'", under-25s are the hot new market for using GPS combined with cyber-social networks to find people. Anyone. All the time. All you need is phone.

I'm under-25 and, again, that scares me. I don't want my parents, crazy exs, siblings, and friends to have the ability to know where I am at all times; it feels like an invasion of privacy just thinking about it.

I feel like that kills the term "weekend getaway" and completely kills any chance of the up and coming generations from sneaking out without their parents find out. Do people really want other people to know where you are at all times?

Not me. But, at the same time I definitely can't give up my Blackberry...

We "Yelp" for Reviews

Online reviews of products and services are becoming more and more common. If you have ever shopping online, you have probably read a review. Amazon.com is one of the leaders in online reviews, but Yelp is now one of the most popular websites specifically for reviews. Yelp offers reviews on restaurants, shopping, night life, hotel, spas and beauty...anything your area that you want to know about.

I personally love online reviews. I used them when buying all my furniture online and I use it to find local restaurants. I believe it holds producers to a higher standard; if people don't like a product or service they can write about it online for everyone to see. From a business owners perspective, one bad review can make or break a company.

So online reviews; good for buyers, bad for sellers?