Jack, Even being under-employed, I am selective on who I accept invites from [and who I send them to]. I typically limit invites to those which I have had some dealings with, in some manner. I may not know them on a personal basis, but have had some form of technical contact/interaction. When just beginning, I was EXTREMELY selective - limiting to just my immediate circle of contacts. This is okay. But then I thought why not expand my horizons a bit and grow a bit more. Yes, there are some Sales individuals that would seem to like to get into a person's contact lists, and root around for prospects, but for the most part one can make a good estimation as to who they might be. Ditto for head-hunters. I don't seek quantity of contacts, but integrity/quality. I attempt to be serious about it. I am not into FaceBook, etc for that reason. I view LinkedIn to be more of a 'professional network', the same way that I view TechNet to be a 'professional forum' I am still undecided whether this 'networking stuff' actually makes any significant difference, however. My recommendation is to be selective ....unless you get an invite from me :-) Steve Creswick http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevencreswick ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please contact helpdesk at x2960 or [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/ContentPage.aspx?Pageid=E-mail-Forums for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------