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Social Networking Sites and Engineers

Posted March 29, 2011 8:29 AM

A Design News survey suggests that popular social networking sites aren't so popular with engineers on the job. But we'd like to hear your views on the subject. Do you agree that these sites don't have much to offer engineers in their professional capacity? Or do you find them useful in your work? If so, how? And are there networking sites that are more useful to engineers than Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn?

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03/29/2011 10:00 AM

CR4 is a social networking site and seems reasonably useful!

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03/29/2011 10:46 PM

The usefulness of social networks for engineers are broad but many engineers are not aware of what is available because they do not force themselves to become more involved. A couple of social networking sites I recommend engineers to actively participate in are https://www.engineeringforchange.org and https://www.element-14.com

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03/30/2011 12:35 AM

Engineers are committed with many responsibilities and they hardly find time to browse social networking. However if the site like CR4 is there I am sure engineers will interact and share their professional expertise among the fraternities.

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03/30/2011 8:21 AM

The reason that I go on so few social networking sites is simply because of the inability of many of these sites to maintain proper and safe security.

The press publishes relatively often the new "break-ins", that's enough to keep me away.....

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03/30/2011 9:31 PM

Most social web sites are just so much noise, and most engineers are trying to lower the noise floor, not raise it...

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