Normally I wouldn’t think much of this, but yesterday I received notification that one of my contacts on LinkedIn had updated her profile. I went to check it out, and saw a couple “new” buttons next to some of her work history stuff. The odd thing is that I was sure she’d had those companies there before, especially since they were older.

Speaking with her on instant messenger, I told her how I had written a recommendation for her since I had been directed there anyway by this email. Her response? “That’s strange, I haven’t been on LinkedIn in well over a month.”

When I was there, I did struggle a bit with pageloads. I’d hit the “submit” button a couple times and received blank pages with “Done” in the status bar. So I’d hit the back button, resubmit, and wait again quite some time for yet another blank “Done” page. It was taking me three or four tries and plenty of waiting to actually get anything done on LinkedIn yesterday - even to read my own messages and approve a recommendation I got from Darren Rowse of b5media and ProBlogger. (Thanks, Darren!) The funny thing is that I never got a notice in my regular email about the recommendation Darren had left me on July 2nd.

Last night, I went to Digg to vote for a story I liked. When I got there, it said there were 41 diggs. Upon clicking the “Digg It!” button, that number jumped to 45. So I hopped on IM with the author and he told me that when he sent me the link to the article, it had said 44. I find it REALLY hard to believe that between the time I clicked on the link to digg and the time I clicked the digg button that three people tried to bury it and then 3 others dugg it right when I did.

This morning, I was on technorati checking out a few things and found that some of my sites that I KNOW were updated within the past week are showing as not having been updated in almost 6 months or more. Now, I know this has been an ongoing problem with technorati, but ongoing for over a year now? What gives, guys?

Part of what we do here at Anubis Marketing is try to explain to our clients how important social networking can be as a part of any internet marketing campaign to a business. It ties in with business blogging and using WordPress as a content management system for an entire website. The feeds are there automatically, and tracking your site stats has become ever so much easier these days. It’s important to anyone branding themselves on the internet to take part in social networks and blog pinging services and so on - but if those sites aren’t doing “their part”, then is it really worth the effort?

Of course my answer to that question is a definite “yes”, and that’s because despite any social network slow downs or updating problems or anything - the benefits far outweight the pitfalls. But sometimes it seems like the social networks themselves are telling us all on an individual basis to “take a chill pill”.

What are your thoughts on social networks and other services like technorati?

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