Friday, October 25, 2013

LinkedIn


Kevin Simmons                                                                                                           10/24/13

Mr. Hennings                                                                                                              BCA

“LinkedIn”

            LinkedIn is asocial networking site that is designed for business professionals. LinkedIn is allows someone to share work-related information with the other uses and keep an online list of professional contacts. LinkedIn allows you to create a custom profile. However, profiles created within LinkedIn are business-oriented rather than personal.

            LinkedIn has affected the business world since it was created. LinkedIn allows you to stay in touch with your colleagues. This can be helpful because they can stay in touch and discuss their current job when you are not at the workplace or face to face with each other. This could allow for a job to be get it done quicker because you can discuss the plan and steps to get the job done when you are not at work. LinkedIn can also be helpful because it allows big companies to see your professional résumé. The downside to LinkedIn is if you have bad report or put your personal information on your profile there are a lot of big companies who can see your profile. If you have something bad on your profile it could cause you to lose your job or not get one later on.

            LinkedIn does not have a big impact on society. This is because LinkedIn is used mostly for business purposes. People who sign up do not put their personal information on the site because of who can see it. There for LinkedIn does not have a big impact socially.

LinkedIn also affects the entertainment industry. Since there are entertainment corporations on LinkedIn people can apply to the company. People who are looking to get a job in the entertainment industry can sign up for LinkedIn and put their résumé on their profile. If the corporation likes their résumé they could hire them. The downside to LinkedIn is if your profile is bad you may not get a job in the entertainment industry that you wanted. Another downside is if the corporations profile is bad people may not want to work for them or buy their products.

The news industry is not really affected by LinkedIn. Since LinkedIn is made for business uses one way LinkedIn can be used for news is by getting news on corporations with their own account. This could help or hurt the business depending on the news. If the news is good on LinkedIn more people will try to get a job there or buy products from the business. If the news is bad it could hurt the business. People with a LinkedIn that see the information may not want to work for the company or buy the company.

            LinkedIn can be used for recreational use but not too often. People may be able to get jobs that they enjoy doing and has a high salary. This will allow someone to do something that they view as fun while getting paid a good amount.

            Overall LinkedIn makes most of its impact on businesses. Since LinkedIn can help people find jobs it helps business hire more people and have less unemployment in America. Ultimately LinkedIn could also impact the economy.




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