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Sharlin on June 13, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

Facebook contacts are my friends, at least for some value of "a friend". LinkedIn contacts are not.

etangent on June 13, 2016 [–]

How does that distinction matter? Wasn't it LinkedIn's goal from the very beginning to make one interact with people who are not one's friends? (Otherwise how does one expand one's network if one merely interacts with the people one knows well?)

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