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Thanks to friend of FuelDog Mary Ellen Powers, I am now aware of the most serious competitor to Linked In, and it is none other than Facebook.  A new Facebook Group was started 11 days ago, yes eleven days, called 6 Degrees, that now has almost a million members.  They have joined with the goal of empowering all of them to get in touch with anyone in the world through their circle of friends and the power of the 6 degree rule.  They even have a famous person of the day contest in which they post a celeb's name and see if any of the group members can get to him.  Today's is Sean Connery.

There are no restrictions on whether it should only be business people (and there are a lot of young people and college students on there), so Linked In has the key business person demographic over this experiment. However, with all of the professional friends I have on Facebook, and their 40+ MM members, I may start a group on Facebook called Link'd In and try to restrict it to only people who have been in the business world for more than a few years to see what happens. 

Thanks MaryEllen, Facebook is sick.

NOTE:  It has gone up to 940,072 in the amount of time it has taken me to write this post.  Figuring it took me 12 minutes to write the post (and that may be exagerating it), that is 386 new members per minute.  How ya doin?  I had to update the image!