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[Rick]

Hi all,

Completely off-topic, but I keep being approached by people supposedly signed up with LinkedIn, complete strangers, wishing to add me to their networks. Should I sign up and accept these requests, or is it just people reaching out to anyone just to "up" the number of people in their networks???

Does anyone here use it?

RJ
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[MikeEdwards]

LinkedIn is like a business version of Facebook, the idea is that there's less inane chatter and more linking with people for work-related stuff. I'm on it, but I don't really do much with it.

Like Facebook, it has annoying stuff too - for example, they keep emailing me to say I've got a message, but the email doesn't say who it's from or what it says, so I have to go to the site. And when I finally do, the last message I have is from about five years ago. And it keeps suggesting people to link to that I can't figure out the link. And like Facebook, sometimes it suggests someone and I wonder how it's managed to link that person (who I might only interact with on a forum, where both of us just use forum names) to me.

[peter scott]

Unless it's someone you know I would delete it.

Linkedin are pesky and get hold of your email distribution lists and misuse them.

Peter
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[Peter_L]

Personally. I cannot see any advantage to the quality of the site.

Maybe I am not the only member of OCC who see "new sign-ups" followed by infinite silence.

Should Quality in OCC come before Quantity ?

[Rick]

[badhuis]

The only thing I have found LinkedIn useful over the years that I have an account, is that it is practical to make contact to old colleagues or friends. Usually for someone an email address get changed over the years, via LinkedIn you can always contact them.
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[MikeEdwards]

[Riley Blue]

I've never seen a need for LinkedIn, not when I was working as a journalist nor now that I'm retired though I've often been told I should sign up. If people want to get in touch with me, there are already enough very easy ways to find me.
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1963 Riley 1.5
1965 Riley 1.5

[Richard H]

I agree with Riley541, never used it myself and probably never will.
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[ukdave2002]

We use linkedin all the time at work, it's very useful In a business environment that I must have used for 10+ years. Facebook is fun and we all use it socially, don't compare the 2 as peers.
What you do get is loads of head hunters and job agency's trying to " recruit" you, which can be a pain.

Dave

[MikeEdwards]

[emmerson]

Someone registered me on linkedin, and I find a bl**dy nuisance! How do I stop it?

[Rootes75]

I am on linkedin at work and I am constantly contacted by recruiters and marketing agents.

I keep an eye on it for industry news etc and don't personally see any real harm in it.

It makes me laugh when I get contacted by people trying to push up their links, one the other day in my network had reached 10,000! Silly really.
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