Strategic Privacy

It seems building effective social network in the virtual community requires you to have more personal and stronger connection with people. It is especially true in the strategic online communities such as LinkedIn which is the online social networking site with shared objective of recruitment. It is because that in such sites, people can reveal, and manipulate any formal information about oneself ,what one can really trust is their informal source of information such as their off-line community and their referential connections.

Also, the strength and trust of the connection need to be maintained within the community. Since, it is so easy to be connected with anyone these days, only question is how strong you can be connected. One interesting example is LiveJournalwhich integrated community blog with personal blog. In this network, readers have access to both their community blog as well as personal blogs which to have reader’s heart little closer to the blogger. As I mentioned in previous postings, it is amazing how one personal blog can build friendlier relation with readers. Therefore, maybe it is more important to use your privacy strategically than to protect one against others.