I recently wrote about LinkedIn’s new restriction on invitation text. What I didn’t realize at the time but has become clear is that there is now a 200-character limit on the text you include with your invitation. That is not a lot of text to play around with. In fact, the first two sentences of this blog post are a combined 200+ characters. For a social networking site that is trying to foster “trusted relationships” amongst professionals, forcing everyone to send very brief and therefore impersonal invitations seems extremely contradictory to me. Whatever new restriction LinkedIn throws at me I …
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In my one of my first blog posts, I wrote about what a LinkedIn IDK is and why you should know. You have the ability to block people on Twitter and Facebook, and LinkedIn gives you a similar ability to block someone by disconnecting with someone, although in the case of LinkedIn you have to connect with them before you can block them (yes, I know, it sounds strange). But the policy on penalizing someone without either the sender or recipient knowing it, which is the case of replying to a LinkedIn Invitation with an “I Don’t Know” or IDK, …
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LinkedIn is a very interesting social networking site. On the one hand, the goal of LinkedIn is to connect people who already know each other to create a network based on “trusted relationships.” On the other hand, if you strive to develop too many relationships or perform too many other activities on the website, you are restricted. Some of these restrictions make sense and are an attempt to limit potential spamming. Other restrictions are clearly geared towards curbing the appetite of the super connected on LinkedIn. Today I want to take a look at the newest restriction that I have …
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