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‘Social Network’ Recruiting

This is defined as Software and online services help recruiters mine their contacts for candidates and referrals. Social networking technology” refers to software and web-based services that enable users to leverage their personal relationships for networking, hiring, employee referrals and references . Social networking took off in 2002 with Friendster. MySpace, which has since reached critical mass and was acquired by News Corp. last year for $580 million, and Facebook, born out of a Harvard dorm room, followed. And in the past year, the space has turned into a packed, wall-to-wall party: SnowboardGang for snowboarders, Pearl Harbor Stories for survivors and their friends and family, Zebo for people who like to list what they own, even Hamsterster for hamster owners. Here the partial list of Social Networking : Catster (www.catster.com) A site for cat lovers and their friends. Dogster (www.dogster.com) A site for dog lovers and their friends. Hamsterster (www.hamsterster.com) A site