New Microsoft employee Niall Kennedy’s got a post on how Facebook now allows registration from certain corporations–Microsoft being one of them. The Facebook registration page allows would-be registrants to select “Work” as one of their network choices–but when I tried to sign up with my Yahoo ID, it said my school wasn’t being supported (Darn!)
Mike Arrington’s got an older post that says 85% of all college students use the site–a number that seems waayy too high to me–But be that as it may, there’s no doubt that Facebook has the ability to pick out so called “elite” (read Fortune 500) companies and build the kinds of networks (and alunmi links) LinkedIn is trying to hard to create.
Pretty shrewd, eh?
Update: Two more cents from the comments on Mike’s post–“Like it or not, the workplace is a very active social environment. This allows facebook to ?grow? with their users. It?s been said before, the exclusive domain-based envirnoment facebook is based on, is a major competative advantage for them. ”
Amen, brother.