LinkedIn Whore

This will be brief. I wrote the phrase "LinkedIn whore" down on a napkin about a month ago thinking it would make an hysterical blog. Now I've sort of forgotten where I was going with it. I joined LinkedIn about six months ago. For the most part it's harmless, although my brother just sent me another of his "google" is watching us news items. I know they're watching us. I just don't assume they care.

I recently got a LinkedIn invitation from someone sketchy from my past. I won't say much except that it made me nervous. I did decline an invitiation from someone recently. I met him at a trade show and gave him my card. He was really there to meet my father who is the CEO of the company attending the tradeshow. First he called my cell phone. Then he invited me to link. Then I declined. Haven't heard from him since.

I'm really a LinkedIn amateur. I rarely remember to ask people to link in. I sent out about 5 invitiations one weekend but they were almost all to women friends.

So the term LinkedIn whore is a reference to people who have like 500+ people in their network. For example, I met this guy a few years ago at this eurotrash party in the City. His name is Cass and he has or had this website called Cassworld. It's Cassworld and we're all just living in it. He's a LinkedIn whore. How can you possibly keep up with 500+ contacts?Who are these people? I'm one of his people and I'm dissing him right here on my blog.

It's crazy. Competing for how many linked ins you can get. That makes you a LinkedIn whore. You know who you are.