should everyone be linked in to one another

[cybereagle at gmail.com (Matt Hillman)]

I think the best way to use linkedin depends what you want to get out of it.
I try to only link with people I know or have some connection with that
"matters" in some way. That might not be a connection that involves knowing
the person in real life, but I like that you can connect in a way that
tightly connects you with focussed groups of people and get all the chatter
that is genuinely of interest to you. So I guess it depends how wide you
want to cast your net. If you are a recruiter, probably pretty wide, if you
are just a professional, perhaps more narrowly targetted.

Incedentally, a while back I made a security podcasts group on linkedin with
no particular podcast affiliation, check it out:
http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/131935

2008/12/27 Joel Esler <eslerj at gmail.com>

> I like to use it as a question and answer medium when I get the chance.
> Ask a question, get 100 different answers.
>
> Joel
>
> On Dec 26, 2008, at 8:29 PM, Rob Fuller allegedly wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> 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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