LinkedIn Connections

[Dexman PE PMP]

But you drive a racecar.

 

[Supe]

But you drive a racecar.

 

[knight1fox3]

I'm good at race car video games, does that count for anything?

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

Does Mrs Fox like a man with strong thumbs?

 

[Supe]

I'm good at race car video games, does that count for anything?

 

[NCcarguy]

While I was out of work, I tried to increase my "network" as much as I possible could, so every single day I would start sending out connection requests. I have made a VERY interesting discovery since I've been doing this. Even though Linkedin is a CAREER NETWORK and not Match.com, I get dramatically more accepts from women than I do men. I get about 50-75% acceptance from women, and about 5-10% from men. It's exactly the opposite of what I would have expected. I have continued to send out random connection requests even after I came back to work just to build my network, and it's largely the same now that I'm working.

It's like men are threatened to be connected and women see it exactly as it is......or they just are programmed to be nicer, so instead of "hurting my feelings" they just accept.

 

[DVINNY]

I'll admit to accepting requests from Hot recruiters, just because I like her profile pic.

I've become that old pervert guy I guess.

 

[P-E]

I'll admit to accepting requests from Hot recruiters, just because I like her profile pic.

I've become that old pervert guy I guess.

Those are actually guys posing as hot recruiters. 

 

[NJmike PE]

Those are actually guys posing as hot recruiters. 

 

[MA_PE]

I think it's more like women feel the need to be popular and have more connections and men don't.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

Just got a contact invite from a PM at a company my company contracts with.  I have never seen, nor met, this person.  I'm sure we were both CC's on the same emails at one point, but I have no idea who he is.

 

[Road Guy]

I've been getting a shitload of them the last 6 months, people I have no clue whom they are or where they work for, half of them are new grads, so I am just deleting all of them.. really odd..

 

[MA_PE]

I've gotten random requests too.  I'm not sure if it's someone having a race to accumulate the most connections or if it's a Linked-in driven thing to increase their popularity/relevance.  Either way I delete them.

 

[Road Guy]

except for the chics, I always accept the chics

 

[thekzieg]

HAHAHA! I JUST ADDED ALL OF YOU!

No I didn't. LinkedIn is basically useless to me.

 

[Road Guy]

I do not care for their new app, its god awful !

 

[FLBuff PE]

Agreed.

 

[Ken PE 3.1]

It's hard to navigate thru it now.

 

[Road Guy]

And now there is a separate app for LinkedIn jobs?

 

[blybrook PE]

The job side is pretty useless (I've tried it).

As for the odd invites, been getting lots of recruiters and oddballs lately. The odd ones I just ignore cause if I delete it, they'll keep sending an invite.