I might, of course, be wrong. In which case I'd be happy to hear anyone else's opinion on this.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Social Networking Etiquette
Perhaps it's just that I have an old fashioned attitude to these things but recently certain people have begun to bug me, and it all revolves around LinkedIn. Now I really like LinkedIn, after years of subscribing I'd finally begun to get it in recent times, to the point where I find it pretty useful... BUT, recently the behaviour of a small minority of people has irked me. I'm happy to share my network with the people I connect with, because I'm pretty selective about who I connect with, but lately I see a trend of people wanting to connect to me (who I know BTW) who want to keep their network secret and yet are happy to have access to mine. Well, that's just wrong - in my book that's not networking it's data mining. I'm sure these people might have an explanation about still being able to get introductions or whatever, but that's not my point. My point is about shared trust. So, please, don't try to mine my contacts - you know who you are!!!
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You make a very good point, Social networking is all about mutual benefit. In the case of linked its asmuch about getting a better understanding of your contacts and who knows, in order to make those connections stronger, as it is about getting intoductions to friends of friends. It only makes sense if those connections work both ways.
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