You Permeate My Screen

Do you com­part­men­tal­ize your social networking?

Some peo­ple will, for instance, add any­one they have ever met on Face­book, only peo­ple they have actu­ally worked with on LinkedIn, and any cool ran­dom peo­ple they find on Twit­ter.

I gen­er­ally add any­one I know to any ser­vice I sign up for. I try not to send out auto­mated “please join” let­ters, though, and only add peo­ple that are already using it.

How­ever, because Twit­ter fol­lows me on my phone, I tried to keep it to peo­ple I would actu­ally talk with, and not ran­dom cool strangers. Recently, though, I was talk­ing about law school and got added by some law-​related people.

One of them was a ser­vice that com­pares your under­grad GPA and grad test scores with those of oth­ers who applied to var­i­ous grad school pro­grams, so you can get an idea of your chances of get­ting into the pro­grams based on how oth­ers fared. (After check­ing out that site and hear­ing about Youchen W and Jimmy P get­ting into law school, I real­ized that I might have sold myself short, and I should have just tried apply­ing to schools anyway.)

But any­way… this is prob­a­bly more of an excep­tion than a change in my social net­work­ing ways. How do you guys behave across the var­i­ous net­work­ing sites and why?

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  1. That’s a pretty cool site

  2. Yeah, it seems pretty use­ful for any­one think­ing of apply­ing for grad school.

  3. you might have seen this, but http://​www​.lawschool​num​bers​.com/ does kind of the same thing too. http://​www​.top​-law​-schools​.com/​f​o​r​u​m​s​/​i​n​d​e​x​.​php was help­ful too some­times, but it’s a very self-​selected group of peo­ple. good luck!

  4. Thanks, I’ll check those sites out.

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