http://tvh.disqus.com/The Virtual Handshake: Sell, Raise Capital, Look for Deals with Social MediaenFri, 10 Jul 2009 21:55:35 -0000http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2005/03/30/selective-vs-promiscuous-linking#comment-12491927<p>I agree 100% with this. When I get link requests from people I barely know, my standard response is:</p>Louis VuittonFri, 10 Jul 2009 21:55:35 -0000http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2005/03/30/selective-vs-promiscuous-linking#comment-8723782<p>Time and again the answer to this question is for LinkedIn to publish activity metrics as an actual reputation system. Endorsements are not real-time information taken from the LI universe.</p><p>I think the problem they face is that many people will follow the strong ties philosophy that they espouse...in practice, they encourage the addition of weak tie connections by publishing numbers of connections on the profile. Although the connection metric was useful during early launch, a better metric would be the activity since joining LI. And with some Ecademy members now pushing 6000 connnections, it might be time to hide the number of connections, no?</p>Dutch DriverSat, 02 Apr 2005 22:31:01 -0000