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The Internet used to be nothing more than a fantastic place to look for information through the many hosted websites on the World Wide Web. Now it has become a huge center where people are connecting with one another regardless of location and sharing information as well. People enjoy staying in touch with others online and recently businesses have been taking advantage of the technology. Social networking sites continue to thrive with new members coming in each and every day.

These people have their own personal purposes for being on these social networking sites. Some of the younger folks enjoy social networking to meet new friends online while others just like to see what all of their close friends are up to.

Even professionals use these modern social networking sites to keep in touch with clients and prospects. But not all the professionals are successful in connecting with other professionals because most of the social networking sites cover a general audience. This is where LinkedIn came in and started to expand on its own social network where all the professionals link together. LinkedIn seems to the perfect world to be in when looking for a job, looking for old colleagues, or seeking professional help. But you might be wondering what you should do with all the other social networking sites. LinkedIn is not designed to replace these sites, but work with them. Here are the modern social networking sites that work very well with LinkedIn.

Facebook

Facebook is highly renowned for its huge network and wide variety of different applications that you can add to your profile. There are several LinkedIn applications that give some of LinkedIn’s core features directly to Facebook. These applications also keep your LinkedIn contacts much closer as you are connected to them both professionally and personally. There are new applications in development every day so you should occasionally check for any LinkedIn applications that come out.

Twitter

Twitter is rising in popularity everyday with more people engaging in the somewhat addictive microblogging service. Even LinkedIn has its very own Twitter link and is seriously considering adding features that tie the two services closer together. There is no official integration right now, but you can place these two services together using a WordPress blog as the bridge. Both Twitter and LinkedIn have WordPress support so once you successfully implement their widgets, bring some traffic to your blog through regular advertisement methods so people can recognize use as a professional and Twitterer.

These are the top two social networking sites that LinkedIn is closely tied to. LinkedIn also has applications of its own that integrate well with lesser known services including TripIt and Company Buzz. It is expected for LinkedIn to create more applications to accelerate the professional features of any popular service. Make sure that you subscribe to the LinkedIn blog and other blogs of your favorite social networking sites for any LinkedIn related news. LinkedIn is slowly catching up with the mainstream social networking sites and becoming globally recognized by professionals.