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Facebook versusACT!
December 3, 2008
In the 1990&;s, it was common for professionals to &;live all day in ACT!&;, ACT! being a contact manager that also had a word processor, calendar, to-do list, etc. ACT! was all about productivity.
In fact, you were supposed to call people (remember calling people?) in your &;tickler&; every 30 days, where you had listed some conversation-starter like &;Saw your wife at the dog show.&;
Now those professionals live all day in Facebook, briefly departing to do actual work. Indeed, many IT types and other corporate drones would ban it if they could. Facebook versus ACT!: an interesting contrast between packaged, stand-alone software and a widely-shared web application.
But are they really so different? As the ACT! website puts it:
Keep important contact details in one place with ACT! so you have quick access to the information you need.
Be up and running quickly because ACT! is easy to learn and use.
Sound familiar, social networkers?
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