I’d love to see the growth and attrition curves on big name SNS, but for now merely assume that MySpace had hit some maturity level where LinkedIn and Facebook are still the newer kids.

Factor-in that maybe people foresaw the professional potential of LI before Facebook. Although, once in many looked around to wonder “what do I do now”.

Answering that call was Jason Alba’s I’m on LinkedIn, Now What? in September 2007.

With Jesse Stay, The Facebook version I’m on Facebook, Now What? came along in February 2008.

All the while, both texts were slightly out of date regarding their respective feature sets as there have been so many new items in the last year. The same holding true for MySpace’s integration of features that other SNS’s already had.

All that said, a year is an enormous amount of time for a comparision. These SNS’s are probably more suited for quarterly.

Thanks for sharing the data (and the Tweet where I learned of the post). If you ever get your hands on some growth curves… you could charge (a little) even a peak at the shape.

More and more people seem to be open to being contacted via LinkedIn and people also seem to be very responsive to questions asked via LinkedIn.

I recently needed to sign up ad agencies to do a final Beta test for ProofHQ. I sent a request out through linked in with some fairly specific criteria and within a day had the Beta agencies that I needed.

As the saying goes “a rising tide floats all boats”.

Growth for one social network means growth for the industry as a whole.

As a provide of training to business on how to leverage this exciting medium (http://www.SocialMediaMoney.com) I’m glad to hear about any prositive growth.