December 25, 2007

Networking Request


Why me?



FYI the answer will differentiate between cynical spam and a genuine request.

Why you? Why not you is my answer!

But the stage for this tussle makes all the difference. Some social networks, like Facebook and LinkedIn, offer the invitation sender a chance to state, in one way or the other, why the invitee should accept the invitation or why the invitation is even being extended at all. Marzar does not!

In that way it is prime for someone like me that believes in open networking. Most people that use Marzar I suspect are aware of this limitation. I've read several people complain in one of the Group Forums, in fact the largest, started my the CEO of Marzar, how grating it is to not to have the option . The answer does not really matter, accept to suggest that the problem is "common" knowledge within the community. Of course their are people that come into a situation like Marzar and do not look around to learn what is a in the common knowledge. They simply join because some friend sent one of those bulk invitations or some other blind method like a search engine or even advertisement. In the case of Marzar, I tend to doubt that it was a add because it doesn't boast of any new technology or great new idea. What I've seen or better stated noticed is the CEO wandering around other social networks boasting of all the other CEOs that are using Marzar.

Maybe that's so, maybe no? This is not even the point, either. The point is that any case - if you are searching around the net for connection, be they CEO or not, you as the searcher need to take some responsibility as to your landing and using of such a tool as Marzar or for that matter any social network provides. So to all those of you who would ask the inviter to qualify their invite - Who's job is it really to answer that question.