Social Net'g

It is surprised to know that "Social networking technology is absolutely the best thing to happen to recruiting — ever." according to "Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting" written by Frank Langfitt. Recruiters must be very happy that it's easy to find talent people nowadays. Besides using LinkedIn, recruiters also use other channel which provides information about a company's expanding, merger and acquisition deals, so they can predict the hiring of that company.  

Another area that social site technology is very useful for me is the customer reviewers. Whenever I want to buy something, anything, I always look at the reviews of the product online and compare it with similar product. I feel it's easy to tell if a review is true or not, especially when there are a lot of reviews. I understand that Kristina Grifantini says in "Can You Trust Crowd Wisdom" that "if you have two or three people voting 500 times" that the result won't be very accurate. However, I feel that there's only a small portion of people doing that. And with technology, it's easier to limit the number of times a user can vote.