The Art of Making Online ‘Friends’ provides a interesting perspective on social networks as a way to leverage what is known in sociology circles as “weak ties”. This support group provides a bridge between tighter groups of friends and gives the job seeker additional avenues to explore.
An observation in the article is that people tend to become more persistent in “friending” others when they are searching for a job. I believe that networking should be something that you do continually. Starting in times of distress won’t provide you with as good results as if you had nurtured your network all along. Are you on LinkedIn? What about Facebook? How do you maintain contact information of the people you went to college with or your ex-coworkers?
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