There are now LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter applications for the BlackBerry smartphone. The beauty of the BlackBerry platform is how stable it is for the core functions of email/calendar/contacts/notes/tasks. Utilize the social media apps and keep your BB running smoothly. Here are the gotchas we’ve seen:
Facebook app: My suggestion: disable all the the 'Connect your Facebook account with:' options (BlackBerry Calendar, Message or Contacts applications). Assuming you sync with Outlook or Exchange you have a very good chance of corrupting your "really important" data. At one point we had a device that mistakenly got set so that the Facebook calendar was the primary one. If you integrate contacts then your friends' profile photos will sync up with your Outlook contacts (this will cause your BB-Outlook sync major problems). It is safer to set your notification preferences at Facebook.com from your browser instead of the BB client. Here is the long story http://bit.ly/c6Rc0B.
LinkedIn app: You might not want to integrate with your BlackBerry Mail or Contacts. Be careful when running it the first time - these are the defaults. This has the potential to destabilize your core BlackBerry functionality (just like the Facebook integration)! It is safer to set your email notification preferences within LinkedIn.com; that way your LinkedIn messages are not specifically dependent on your smartphone. Plus the LinkedIn app is even newer than the Facebook one. And most LinkedIn users have had bad experiences with the Outlook plug-in....
Twitter app: I would deselect the 'Integrate in Messages application'. This is similar to the LinkedIn 'BlackBerry Mail' integration. If you want to get email alerts from Twitter, it is safer to set these preferences within twitter.com or (PC/Mac) based twitter client rather than the BlackBerry platform specific one. Otherwise you may get multiple alerts (Blackberry, email and SMS).
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