Comments on: Does LinkedIn Limit the Number of Connections You Can Have?

By: How Many LinkedIn Connections are Too Many?

How Many LinkedIn Connections are Too Many? — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:15:02 +0000

[...] Schaffer, an avid LinkedIn user, argues that the company shouldn’t be making that kind of a restriction on its users, because people will become more cautious about people with whom they might only do business [...]

By: Should LinkedIN Limit Your Connections?

Should LinkedIN Limit Your Connections? — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:40:20 +0000

[...] as I continued to read Does LinkedIn Limit the Number of Connections You Can Have? I began to look at this from another point of view. As Neal pointed out, social media networking [...]

By: How Many LinkedIn Connections are Too Many? | The Web and You

How Many LinkedIn Connections are Too Many? | The Web and You — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:46:29 +0000

By: nealschaffer

nealschaffer — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:35:58 +0000

Angie, thank you for your passionate and detailed comment, spoken very eloquently and extremely convincing. I couldn't agree any more with you!

By: nealschaffer

nealschaffer — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:35:58 +0000

Angie, thank you for your passionate and detailed comment, spoken very eloquently and extremely convincing. I couldn't agree any more with you!

By: Angie Sallese

Angie Sallese — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:12:00 +0000

The limit on invitations and on connections just doesn't make any sense for networkers. If we go to a live networking event and only hang out with the people we know, then the gathering wasn't really a networking event. We go to meet new people, often in a direct manner rather than through someone else. The same applies here--why limit the number of people I can introduce myself to?

For sales people or anyone with a large customer data base, the limit is meaningless (for example, I have over 5,000 contacts in my Outlook address book, but can't invite all of them. Who do I leave out?) If I change companies, it is very conceivable that my contacts will change with my job function. So I won't be able to invite all of those new folks.

Let me throw in a sales anecdote here. My longest sell cycle was 4 years. That was very unusual, but it happened. I network with people because we all help each other sometime. You help me today, while it might be a year before I can do something for you. The pay-it-forward philosophy is also important, since it all comes full circle.

The only reasoning that works here is that unlimited invitations and connections can't be monetized. Several commenters have discussed that. LinkedIn's usage numbers, and the time spent in the program, don't come anywhere near Facebook or any other application, and the developers would like to change that, I'm sure. So I'd like to remind LinkedIn's developers that the more activity I've got going on, the longer I'll be working in the program each day. The other day I was here for 8 hours. If that's what you'd like to see much more often, then please remove the limitations.

By: Kristoffer J. Lassen

Kristoffer J. Lassen — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:48:32 +0000

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By: nealschaffer

nealschaffer — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:43:15 +0000

Thanks for the comment Edwin. Agreed! It takes a lot of connections to start feeling the “challenges”…but now that I am over 20,000 connections my connections are literally numbered…

- Neal

By: Edwin L Clerval

Edwin L Clerval — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:27:40 +0000

Hi
LINKEDIN does a great job in providing outlets and networking opportunities for the individual web user. Those who utilize the site for their professionalism practice or actually handle business cases in sending messages and recommendations to encourage networking have not been limited from what I am seeing. Connections made by the business owners and associates using Linkedin have ackomplished what it was that they should be intended to use the net for.

Major usage for those who have Linkedin would be overestimating the force behind Linkedin, and for those who can manipulate the workings of this application then they would be underestimating. From what you can learn from those individuals, you would be considered an associate business partner. THeir professional procedures and showing as well as the post approaches will direct those who need the attention in certain area's.

Taking my personal situation for example, I have many profiles on a number of services and I rate Linkedin as a positive one whereby I can get tons of answers figured out and have came across non challenges associated with web networking as far as connections are concerned

By: Montaha Hidefi

Montaha Hidefi — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:54:45 +0000

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