I’ve had my Facebook account for approximately 4 or 5 months, and my network seems to grow at a steady rate, showing no signs of stagnation.

My LinkedIn account is a couple of years old and grew very slowly up until the point when I signed up to Facebook. Since then it has stagnated completely.

And who is in my respective networks? Is it LinkedIn for business and Facebook for fun? Not even close! both networks are a mish mash of friends, clients, co-workers from back in the day, family and the guys I work with now. And if you ask me, that’s the way it should be.

Cause essentially, who am I to decide which contacts could be relevant to whom, right? I mean there’s a very real chance that one of my friends or family members could have something to offer to a client or co-worker of mine, right?

What I’m saying, really, is that the distinction between private contacts and business contacts is futile – I gave it up quite a while back, and it was a weight off my shoulders!