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For a while now I've been drifting towards the conclusion that it's time to dump my LinkedIn account: I've never really seen any benefit from it, increasingly the people who want to connect with me are people I only know peripherally and wouldn't recommend or introduce to someone else, which I thought was at least partially the point of LinkedIn.

Looking through my list of connections there's at least a couple who I genuinely can't remember who the hell they are or what their connection with me is.

And from what I'm seeing if it from the sidelines now it's started to feel like it's turned into stamp collecting, with everyone desperate to have as many stamps i.e. connections as possible because I'm getting new connection requests all the time.

Numbers are up at the moment, possibly on the back on the LinkedIn float, and I've already had three in the last few days. Two are from people I do at least know, although only very vaguely - we've never met although we've exchanged emails - but it's this one that's finally got me annoyed enough to write this posting:

LinkedIn invite from someone I've never heard of

Who's Rattan Kumar? Bob alone knows, but as he's based in India, a country I've not been to in over two decades the chances of me being "a person I trust" are small.

As I said above I think he's stamp collecting. I reckon he's just randomly hitting on as many people as possible hoping a few of them are too tired to do anything more than clicking to accept.

And, if they're stamp collectors too, it adds to their stamp collection so what harm does it do?

But the real question to my mind is: what good does it do you having a lovely big stamp collection? Especially if it's filled with stamps with no real value, the sort which came in the cheap selection you got from Woolworths on Saturday with your pocket money. Where's the payback?

If there isn't any for most of them then sooner or later the stamp collectors will get bored and move on and that's going to leave the LinkedIn float looking even more precarious than it is now ...

Tags: internet Written 29/05/11

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