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By: From The Savvy Newcommer by Catherine Christaki (Lingua Greca): Social Media Strategies | ATIF News - A voice for Florida T&I professionals

Wed, 18 Feb 2015 17:13:20 +0000

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By: Marion Rhodes

Marion Rhodes — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 19:09:18 +0000

Random LinkedIn requests are a pet peeve of mine as well. I make it a point to always include some information on why a connection would be mutually beneficial. Unfortunately, that means not taking advantage of the “People you may know” feature on the LinkedIn mobile app. If you click on the “connect” icon there, you send an invitation to connect without even getting a chance to type a personal message. I didn’t know that at first, so I apologize to anyone who may have received such contact requests in the past! 🙂

By: Catherine Christaki (@LinguaGreca)

Catherine Christaki (@LinguaGreca) — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 22:20:22 +0000

Thanks for your comment and glad you liked the article 🙂 On LinkedIn it’s not that hard to go above 500 connections and I’ve found that the invitations I get are usually from interesting people. On Twitter, the follow-anybody rule is much more common. From the 10+ new follows per day, I only follow 20-30%. A quick look (few seconds is all you need) at their profiles (LI) and their timelines (Twitter) will give you all the info you need.

By: annieux

annieux — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:16:46 +0000

Thanks for reconfirming my approach to not accepting invitations from those who randomly add people without even knowing them. Having said that I do struggle with this because I do get invites from people who may be a potential good connection. What helps is to see how many connections they have and if they have over 500+ I assume they are not selective about the people they interact with. But and then I really don’t know and you know what they say about assumptions. Sigh!

Very helpful article.