Ori – thanks – these are valid points.

As for my activity – I actually “lived” inside LinkedIn for several years now, polishing my profile and cultivating future connections.
Once I landed on new opportunities and handed in my resignation, I started doing something that I do too little of – I started telling people how great they are – without their request and without any need or suggestion of reciprocation from their side. It made me feel great and it got me an additional exchange of private emails with the people I value.

Tsahi

Arianna,

I believe that some are trying to treat these platforms like spammers – you go after everyone in a pursuit to catch a single person. It doesn’t make sense today – especially when it is so easy to see it from the other side.

1. Linkedin is one of these sites that represents yourself to all your companions. These lie you were talking about are a way to make these people look better for their self, opposed to their classmates / old co-workers etc’

2. It a great tool to keep in touch with people that aren’t your close friends and may meet you along the way and support each other. This could be to find a new job, new customer, new mentor etc’. You never know whose help you’ll need across the way and you won’t necessary remember them.

3. I used this tool when interviewing people for jobs. If it was to
validate their C.Vs (uncorrelated ones were thrown to the trash). Others I have found people to ask for recommendation as we had common friends.

4. This tool must be used constantly as it is pretty obvious to see when someone is looking for a new opportunity when his Linkedin profiles get constantly changing. (Now I have understood why your profile was operational recently).

5. You can find great collaboration with people with the same professional and interests that you have. Without this tool it would have been impossible.

6. Your greatest opportunity can come out of this tool as people are searching to find that right person with your qualification. Another reason why it should be updated and telling the truth.