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Not connecting with people on LinkedIn is short sighted and damaging to your reputation

By Kevin

I get a lot of emails from folks who would like to add me to their professional network on LinkedIn. 90% of the time, after reviewing their background, I accept the invitation to connect. I also send out a lot of invites to connect on LinkedIn to people I meet in person and online. So it floors me when lawyers and other professionals tell me they often decline invites to connect on LinkedIn. The reasons for declining vary. I guard who gets into my LinkedIn connections. It's a very small group of close professionals.I don't know much about LinkedIn and how it works so I just blow off the invites.Privacy should be more guarded on the net. Not accepting invites on LinkedIn is one way I guard my privacy.There's so many social networking communities I can't keep up with them all...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on June 12, 2010 (boomark / email).