LinkedIN to LinkedOUT
I started networking on LinkedIn in 2007 when not many in India had even heard of LinkedIn. People like me started spreading the word about Linkedin, educating people about the beauty of this professional network. Linkedin made me a global citizen , having connected with people across geographies, countries, races, genders , age groups. I started investing time in connecting with people as I saw value in it. However the trouble started when I reached 28,000 connections. I received a message from Linkedin that you can not have over 30000 connections in your network. On asking why, answer I got was shocking - "Because Linkedin has a policy that you can not have over 30K people in your network". I decided to follow up on the ideology behind it & the answer I got was out of the world - "LinkedIn thinks that one can not know more than 30k people in this world". I understand that every org has policies but again there has to be some logic behind it?? How can s