Unsocial Network ?? Linkedin

[jtmellon]

Couple of questions about this "social network" (??) internet thingy.


I ain't real smart with computers, and my brain is slower than a rattle snake in winter.

Crikey, I can't even keep up with Facebook.



But how can Linkedin help me (or anyone else) in business, when someone is half a world away. ??

I seem to get a lot of requests from American people to join and be their buddy, what would be the perceived benefit in accepting their request.??

Most of them I don't know, but they profess to know somebody that I know.

I may have replied to someone on a forum or met at an industry event such as Connections, and such a connection (no pun intended) is made, thus giving these people a reason to contact me.

I can't really see any reason that someone in Pigsty, Alabama, or Nome, Alaska, would want to have me as their "Link friend" being several thousand miles and a few countries away.

Hence most of these requests, I have deleted.

Look forward to some replies.

Shorty, lost in the tropical ethernet.

I have found Linkedin to be of no use to me what so ever. I am in a few groups and I get spam (not the type you fry with eggs) and I get other people talking about their cleaning services. So I am in groups with other people that have cleaning services which is no help to me at all. It's free and that is about the only good thing.

Now I am going to go and request you on Linkedin.