Think of a Newspaper as an Analogy for Social Media Networking

I was once again attempting to explain the power of social media networking to my husband based on his presence on LinkedIn.

I tried the explanation of a spider web – that a person makes connections on LinkedIn in order to be connected to other people's connections.

But my husband wanted to know how people keep up with everyone they are connected to on LinkedIn, following on Twitter, and friends with on Facebook.

The simple answer is that they don't. There's not enough time in the day for m...