The Epistelesslogical Rupture is pleased to announce success in establishing numerous connections to colleagues, friends and family throughout the world using the awesomated* tools of LinkedIn.
The Epistelesslogical Rupture has previous experience with MySpace (ads, ads, ads, ads, ads, ads, ads) and with Gather.com (which has been a royal disappointment), and would recommend neither. LinkedIn provided the best interface for connecting with folks, and the age range of connections was astounding. Indeed, today the Epistelesslogical Rupture has managed to locate long-lost colleagues dating all the way back to college ... which was when Twenty-First Century Fox was still 20th Century Fox.
The Epistelesslogical Rupture was particularly captivated by the ease with which the Epistelesslogical Rupture was able to allow the LinkedIn system search its Gmail account for contacts who were already LinkedIn members. This same tool was allegedly available on MySpace, but never worked.
What does the Epistlesslogical Rupture hate about MySpace? MySpace revived the early childhood trauma loop of the unpopular kid, which goes like this: "Will you be my friend?" "No." Repeat as desired. Elementary school at its best. Repeated in adulthood on MySpace. Willingly... Except it's worse, because in adulthood, we've learned that it's rude to say "No," so our MySpace page may contain people who we have "friended" out of politesse oblige.
With LinkedIn, this false binarism is masked somewhat: "Mr. Q has invited you to be part of his professional network at LinkedIn," or something along those lines. It sounds much more professional, and it certainly beats using the word "friend" as a verb (e.g., "will you friend me?"). If an invitee responds negatively to a LinkedIn invite, they can decline out of busy-ness without disclaiming the inviter's friendship.
The Epistelesslogical Rupture has already received three replies to its invitations to LinkedIn, all of them affirmative. So there, childhood bullies. Take that.
*awesomated is a service mark of the Epistelesslogical Rupture
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