Tony Harding our recruitment experts says "A good survey from the IT Job Board, while most commentators accept that Social Networking is fast catching up with that market share, the survey leads to the obvious conclusion: learn how to get recruited via Social Media.

Jobs boards just enabled the same jobs to be seen and applied to by more job seekers, hence increasing job application competition. They are free to the job seekers because the model works for the employer, and tips it against the job seeker compared to the old local newspaper."

Back in March, Facebook won an injuction against three spammers who sent unwanted messages and made abusive wall posts on the site. The temporary restraining order placed criminal consequences on their continuing actions, but the legal battle didn’t end there.

This week Facebook reported they’ve been awarded $711 million in damages by a San Jose, CA court against Sanford Wallace, the notorious ‘Sam King’ that MySpace also successfully went after last year to the tune of a $234 million judgment.

A recent study conducted by ComScore, Inc found that 29.4 million people accessed at least one social networking site in the U.K. in May, averaging 4.6 hours per visitor during the month, with facebook ranking as the most visited social networking site.

Well with a general election moving towards the horizon my first quarter review has to centre on the march of the digital world. If you’re not on LinkedIn and in business then you are missing out, if you take part in networking you must get yourself using LinkedIn every day.