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If you have a Facebook account as your social networking platform, you should then need one LinkedIn account for your career or even business relater social networking site. LinkedIn was founded in December 2002 and officially launched in May 2003.

As of 22 March 2011 (2011 -03-22), LinkedIn reports more than 120 million registered users, spanning more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. The site is available in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Russian and Turkish.

My personal accounts was only created in 2008, that was 5 years after it officially launched.
Features

One purpose of the site is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people with whom they have some level of relationship, called Connections. Users can invite anyone (whether a site user or not) to become a connection. However, if the recipient of an invitation selects “I don’t know“, this counts against the person inviting them, and after five such “IDKs” a member cannot invite another to connect without first supplying their recipient mail address.

In summary you can do the following in LinkedIn :

• Find contact either direct connections, the connections of each of their connections (termed second-degree connections) and also the connections of second-degree connections (termed third-degree connections). This can be used to gain an introduction to someone a person wishes to know through a mutual contact.
• It can then be used to find jobs, people and business opportunities recommended by someone in one’s contact network.
• For Employers you can actually advertise the job through your own wall or pay to officially advertise in the LinkedIn network. You can headhunt candidates too….
• Job seekers can review the profile of hiring managers and discover which of their existing contacts can introduce them.
• Users can post their own photos and view photos of others to aid in identification.
• Users can now follow different companies and can get notification about the new joining and offers available.
• Users can save (i.e. bookmark) jobs which they would like to apply for.
• LinkedIn enabled an “applications platform” that allows other online services to be embedded within a member’s profile page. Among the initial applications were an Amazon Reading List that allows LinkedIn members to display books they are reading, a connection to Tripit, and a Six Apart, WordPress and TypePad application that allows members to display their latest blog postings within their LinkedIn profile.
• The feature LinkedIn Answers,  similar to Yahoo! Answers, allows users to ask questions for the community to answer. This feature is free and the main difference from the latter is that questions are potentially more business-oriented, and the identity of the people asking and answering questions is known.
• LinkedIn Polls.
• In November 2010, LinkedIn allowed businesses to list products and services on company profile pages; it also permitted LinkedIn members to “recommend” products and services and write reviews.
• In July 2011, LinkedIn launched a new feature allowing companies to include an “Apply with LinkedIn” button on job listing pages. The new plugin will allow potential employees to apply for positions using their LinkedIn profiles as resumes. All applications will also be saved under a “Saved Jobs” tab.
• LinkedIn also supports the formation of interest groups, and as of March 24, 2011 there are 870,612 such groups whose membership varies from 1 to 377,000. The majority of the largest groups are employment related, although a very wide range of topics are covered mainly around professional and career issues, and there are currently 128,000 groups for both academic and corporate alumni.

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