Facebook vs. Linkedin

Facebook is not a new thing for me. I've been using it for years and used it to connect to my extended network of family and friends globally. It's the best way to keep in touch with people, however there is a danger of it being quite addictive and you can spend hours on it if you're not careful.
Linkedin I tried once before and I was not impressed. I can't see it being used as a personal networking website. It's merely business based and its a very good way to get the word out and gets you noticed. Unfortunately for my line of work there are are other well-known industry based websites out there that I ended up using instead.
So here are a few good points and bad points about both

Linkedin

Linkedin is a good place for business. It's place where business decision makers do business with professional individuals. It's an excellent service for promoting your business and keep in touch with people in the same field.

Although initially it's free to sign up to but you get all the good features on Premium for which you have to pay

It's very static. They hardly ever make any changes to the website and the way it works. This could be both good and bad. Some people argue Facebook make too many changes too quickly and for that reason the prefer Linkedin, but also one of the downsides of this is the fact that it doesn't move with time and it looks quite dull.

Spamming is another problem I had with Linkedin, you receive far too many messages, not many of them are relevant to what you're interested in.

It's fairly reliable. It has nowhere near as many glitches as Facebook does.

Facebook

Facebook is an excellent place for virtual socializing and keeping in touch with people you know whom you don't necessarily get to see on a daily basis.

They make changes to it constantly, and unfortunately with every change they make it changes your entire privacy setting that you need to go into and change again.

It is free. Despite all rumors that go around saying they are going to charge in future. So everyone on there gets the same service.

The customer service is terrible. In cases of people stealing your intellectual property and harassment when you make a complaint it never gets addressed and no one ever gets back to you regarding it. So unfortunately you could become a victim to a case of someone stealing your identity.

One of the main thing to keep in mind about Facebook in my opinion is to make it as private as you possibly can and just add those you trust and have a close relationship with. The more virtual friends (that you probably never met and never going to meet) you get on there, the more vulnerable you make yourself to possible abuse and misuse.