In this day and age of runaway online Social Networking, hardly a day goes by without some kind of invitation to link up with somebody appearing in your Inbox.
I belong to the LinkedIn Professional network that claims over 40 million users worldwide. I continue to be amazed at the number of invites I get from people (several of them complete strangers) that merely send the standard computer generated invite…
I’d like to add you to my Professional network on LinkedIn
When someone is trying to connect with me, I usually like to see a few sentences on why that person thinks that this will be a good ‘connection’. Something personal about them and their background goes a long way towards ensuring that the invitation is taken seriously.
The vast majority of the people that send ‘computerized invites’, that I connect with, I never hear back from later. In general, I believe in establishing ‘connections‘ and I am not into collecting Souveneirs or Trophies. If my LinkedIn account has more than 500 connections and I dont recognize any of the names on it what good is it to me or to them?
Connection not Collection
Question: Do you think there is a limit to the number of people you can effectively ‘connect’ with before it starts getting to be a mere collection? What do you think that threshold number is?
Picture Credit: Prudence & Sesame Ellis
