Where do sites like Facebook and Friendster fit into the online networking puzzle?
Facebook and Friendster are completely different beasts from LinkedIn. We work incredibly hard to maintain professionalism on the site. It’s a productivity tool. This is for people who want to manage their professional life. They’re eager to make connections with people already established and credible. Younger people reaching out to older people in their network are eager to separate themselves from their college days. If you look at the demographics of people who use LinkedIn, they’re middle- to upper-middle-class professionals. What are your plans for LinkedIn’s future? We don’t talk about functionality that hasn’t gone public yet. But we’re building tools for heavy users like the LinkedIn Project, which automatically saves LinkedIn searches, organizes profiles into projects and adds comments or tags to profiles for future use. Say you find a job candidate who would be an excellent candidate but that person is pregnant and will be out on maternity or isn’t ready to switch jobs. You
