Is LinkedIn helpful or a headache? Blog post confessing disenchantment leads to connection requests
Legal tech blogger Robert Ambrogi got an unexpected response after he wrote about his disenchantment with LinkedIn. Ambrogi, author of LawSites, remarked on Twitter that it’s “pretty funny how many connection requests I received after my rant about LinkedIn.”
Ambrogi wrote on LawSites that he is of two minds about LinkedIn. He has long touted the networking tool as a useful way for lawyers to make connections, message people, and consult as a directory of professionals. So far, Ambrogi wrote, those pluses outweigh the minuses.
But Ambrogi said he is growing impatient with “useless noise, unwanted spam and pointless connection attempts” from LinkedIn. What may be most troubling, he said, is that he receives far more connection invitations from people trying to sell him something than from people who want to connect for professional purposes.
“Maybe there’s a sort of law of diminishing returns at play here,” wrote Ambrogi, who has been on LinkedIn for 11 years. “As of this moment, I have 2,254 connections on LinkedIn. I’m sure there are plenty of other people I could or should connect with. When I come across one, I send an invitation. But at some point the worthwhile connections must start to run low. And all these connections begin to feel fruitless, as if we are connecting purely for the sake of connecting.”
