Future Lawyers Use of Social Networking Tools

Doug Cornelius posted an interesting survey on his KM Space blog. He conducted a survey of law school summer associates. He said that these are preliminary results:

More than 80% have a Facebook account
Of those, 2/3 check Facebook at least once a day
Only 25% have a LinkedIn account
Of those, only 10% check LinkedIn once a week, with the rest answering rarely
Only 20% have a MySpace account
Of those, 1/4 check it once a week, with the rest answering rarely

I now have a Facebook account and recently wrote on The Emergence of Facebook for Business. I am likely to check it frequently as I like the rich context it provides. I never “check” LinkedIn but I do respond to things that come through it. I opened a MySpace account because of a friend but never check it so I guess I correlate with these findings. I look forward to seeing the final results from Doug. He and I are also connected through Facebook. web 2.0

Comments

[Doug Cornelius]

Bill -

I have posted the final results. You should also be able to download the raw survey results.

Doug

http://kmspace.blogspot.com/2007/09/updated-social-network-site-survey.html