The Main Difference Between Facebook and LinkedIn(professional vs social networking sites) every professional should know about these sites

Two popular social networking sites are LinkedIn and Facebook. While both are designed to connect people online, the two sites represent different types of connections with very different options and features.

1 Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company. It is based in Menlo Park, California. Its was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes

Founded: February 2004, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

CEO: Mark Zuckerberg

Headquarters: Menlo Park, California, United States

CFO: David Wehner

Stock price: FB (NASDAQ) US$ 161.89 +1.85 (+1.16%)
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Founders: Mark Zuckerberg, Andrew McCollum, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes

Subsidiaries: WhatsApp Inc., Oculus VR, LiveRail, Onavo, MORE

LinkedIn Corporation

LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Founded on December 28, 2002, and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs.

CEO: Jeff Weiner  (Jun 2009–)

Founded:  2002, Mountain View, California, United States

Headquarters : Sunnyvale, California, United States

Founders:   Konstantin Guericke, Reid Hoffman, Jean-Luc Vaillant, Allen Blue, Eric Ly

Subsidiaries:  LinkedIn Learning, Linkedin Singapore Pte. Ltd., MORE

Parent organization:  Microsoft Corporation

What Is LinkedIn?

LinkedIn is a professional, business-oriented social networking site. Here, users can create a profile that is akin to a resume. Your LinkedIn profile summarizes your current and previous professional experience, your company and its industry and affiliates, your educational background, and any Web sites you own or are affiliated with.

By providing this type of professional information, you can then connect with colleagues, clients and partners. On the LinkedIn site you create a network that consists of "connections". Connections on LinkedIn are the people you know, and connections expand to include the people they know and have connected with on LinkedIn.

Some of the tools and features of LinkedIn include the following:

• Recommendations: You can recommend colleagues, business partners or service providers and share your recommendations on your profile. When others view those profiles they can read the recommendations.
• Contacts: You can search and add contacts individually or simply import your Outlook or Web mail contacts from Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail or AOL to search for contacts on LinkedIn.
• LinkedIn Search: You can search for people by name, by company or by industry.
• LinkedIn Jobs: A job search, powered by Simply Hired enables you to search for jobs. Here, your LinkedIn connections, your profile updates, plus any recommendations can help you when making contact with a person who has listed a job posting you're interested in.
• LinkedIn Answers: Here you can ask a question and get answers from your connections and experts within your network. You can also view questions and answers posted by others.
• LinkedIn Service Providers: A directory of service providers with recommendations from clients. The most recent LinkedIn recommendations are listed here also.

What Is Facebook?

The Facebook social networking site is used to connect with a variety of people — your friends, family and those you work with, go to school with, or people you used to be friends or classmates with. In a general sense, where LinkedIn is designed to connect professionals, Facebook is designed to just connect people.

When you join Facebook and create a profile, you will enter in key information which can help other people find you on Facebook. This includes; Basic information like name, birthday, hometown, political and religious views. In your profile you can also include contact information, your relationship details (married, single, and so on), and personal details such as your favorite teams, shows, movies, and books. Facebook also provides options for users to include education and work details.

When people search on Facebook they can, for example, search just by "hometown" or by employer to help them find people they know or to meet people with similar interests. When you add a connection on Facebook, it is called a friend. As you add friends you can also select a connection type that describes how you know or met this person.

Some of the tools and features of Facebook include the following;

• Networks: When you join Facebook you can join a regional network to connect with people in your own area. Other types of networks you can join are based on a company or school.
• Facebook Applications: Applications on Facebook are small programs that users can install to their profile. These can be anything from blog interfaces to games, instant messaging, shopping lists and more. Other can often see notes about your applications and what you are doing in it on your profile. Also, your profile will also include boxes which contain the application.
• Facebook Photos: Facebook users can create online photo albums which can be viewed from their profile.
• Facebook Video: Users can upload and tag videos to share on their Facebook profile.