Platform politics rife at the office

Stuffy suit, outspoken opinion leader, tedious try-hard... the way you interact with technology may be telling your colleagues more than you realise about the sort of person you are.

A couple of years ago the demarcation was clear: Facebook was for the young; LinkedIn for the not-so-young – professional boomers, upwardly mobile Gen Xs and other serious minded folk who wanted to talk turkey, not look at the ski photos of one of their 570 'friends'.

But James Griffin, a partner at social media consultancy SR7, said the lines had become increasingly blurred.

“In the past eighteen months there's been a real acceptance of LinkedIn for all types of people, from graduates scouting for jobs up to Board members.    Full Read