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No I’m afraid I’m not ‘Linked In”…
By admin | August 1, 2008
Over a very genial pint in the Green Dragon a friend of mine explained that he saw no reason to get ‘linked in‘. “Why would I want to expose my valuable clients and contacts to all and sundry?” With a local offline network that works fine and great word of mouth referrals he could see no point in partaking.
I’m not a member either, so I couldn’t hold forth on the benefits that he was missing out on. I feel like I’ve quite enough on my plate without getting ‘linked in‘… Are we both behind the times, missing out or needlessly trying to protect ourselves from unwelcome callers? Who knows… [UPDATE: Since writing this piece I'm now linked in and will post about it in due course]
He’s been the new business point of contact for his business for a good number of years so his email is already prone to a deluge of highly targeted yet unwelcome approaches. We discussed the need for him to have someone manually sift that email account while he decamps to another one that only the privvy will find out about. The dilemmas of the modern worker eh? Should give him back a chunk of time though!
The same night my brother in America who has just joined Linked In was amazed by the fact you could see who else was looking at somebodies profile. Welcome to the world of social networking bro’. Sometimes it’s easier to not partake at all rather than take on the onus of something else to update and somewhere else that your activity can be pryed upon.
I had to explain/justify why I wasn’t bothered about being not being part of that particular club. I don’t currently need to, in the words of Linked In, “re-connnect”, “power my career” or “get answers”… but watch this space if I kick off a hungry start-up business I’ll be on there like a shot trying to get hold of as many people I don’t yet know who can help me…
Oh dear the phone has just rung and it’s that automated telephone spam telling me I’ve won an all expenses holiday in the Bahamas… see what I mean! I’ve logged it on WhoCallsMe whatever use that might be?
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