should everyone be linked in to one another

[dninja at gmail.com (Robin Wood)]

2008/12/27 Rob Fuller <jd.mubix at gmail.com>:
> I have to agree with Jack here. I am at 48 of a possible 50 groups (Yes they
> start notifying you when you get close). I think the ability to message
> someone that is in one of the groups I am in without having to link them is
> the advantage of groups. But I think this applies to any social medium. I
> don't understand why some people have 50,000 follower and following 50,000
> people on twitter. It can't be useful other than as a podium. I could be
> wrong.

Group membership makes sense, same as mailing list membership,
subscribe to the ones you are interested in. I didn't realise that
membership also allowed you to contact people not directly linked to,
that just strengthens my belief that you just link to people who are
important to you and then use the groups to contact the wider
community.

I have trouble keeping up with following 19 people on twitter! But
then I like to read each tweet so it can take a while to catch up if I
have a day off reading.

Robin

> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Jack Daniel <jackadaniel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am a bit of a Linkedin group whore- I like group because they give
> > you a lot of connections to use when you want them without needing to
> > play connect-the-dots individually.
> >
> > Jack
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > I'm in a few groups on linked in and daily there are requests from
> > > people asking to expand their networks and to exchange links.
> > >
> > > What do people think, is this right or should you only link with
> > > people you know or have reason for linking with? The way I see it, if
> > > everyone links to everyone else then all we end up with is a large
> > > mailing list, lots of which already exist. My thinking is that I'll
> > > link to people I either know, respect or have some other business
> > > relationship with but am I missing out in not linking to everyone else
> > > in the world?
> > >
> > > What are other peoples policy on this?
> > >
> > > Robin
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