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title: All Is Flux: Thoughts on LinkedIn
author: Tris
date: 2004-08-10
url: https://www.trishussey.com/all-is-flux-thoughts-on-linkedin/
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Funny what you get in your Feedster searches, sometimes dreck, sometimes great stuff.  This is the later.  I had similar experience, or nearly, on LinkedIn.  There was someone I wanted to contact for some reason, maybe to pitch an idea or just a friend of a friend kind of connection.  It could also have been someone who I knew, but didn't have an e-mail address for.  In any case I was getting the process going of "requesting a contact" and realized that my request was going to have to go through at least one person I had no relationship with and didn't know me from Adam.  Sure I think it's okay to ask a friend to introduce you to a friend, but the friend of a friend thing can't happen very often.  Too many degrees of separation I think.Disagree, though, on LinkedIn's lack of usefulness.  I think it is only now starting to come into usefulness.  I'm fascinated how many people I have in common with other people.  And I think if I know Bill and Bill knows Sue, I think Bill might be willing to intro me, if I e-mail Bill outside of LinkedIn to tell him why I was making the request.Social networking is really in its infancy.  I think before we pass too harsh a judgement we should give it a little time to mature.[*All Is Flux: Thoughts on LinkedIn*](http://www.allisflux.com/flux/2004/08/thoughts_on_lin.html)*Are you a member at LinkedIn? Recently, I was hoping to get in touch with someone at a certain company, so I did a search by company name. I found some people who were only two degrees away, meaning that I knew someone who knew the person. So I sent my friend a message, asking him what he knew about the guy I was ?targeting? and the company in general. It turns out that he didn?t know the guy very well.*