Like the title says...

I've not explored much on this site but apparently it's a facebook type thing for academics and researchers. you can look up projects to see what others are researching, etc. Might be worth a look if you're interested.

http://www.academia.edu/

Somebody mentioned this to me recently. Has it just started up? I've joined, but I'm a bit confused about the whole thing (really doesn't take much with technology).

am on there for long but havent checked in ever and dont quite know what its for

I'm not 100% either to be honest. I've signed up... I think it's just a community for academics to share their research... you can upload papers and presentations and so on. Maybe a way of propmoting yourself and your research to others?

I dunno.

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I've been on this site for ages, and don't know if it's done me any good. It's also not comprehensive - there's basically no academics from my field on there. Established academics don't need to use this, so I suspect it's just for us up-and-comers. People also need to be careful if they're uploading material which has been published - this could breach copyright.

unlike facebook it seems that when a friend suggests you join you automatically get added to the website. had to delete my profile and remove myself from the mailing list :-s

I've found it quite useful for keeping in touch with people I've met at conferences - but, as has been pointed out, mainly other postgrads rather than established people.