What’s your criteria for requesting to connect with someone on LinkedIn? I rarely send requests, but I get a lot of them and I’ve never even heard of some of the people. Makes me wonder how they’re finding me in the first place.

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I've actually gotten some great leads via random LinkedIn connections. To me, it's no different than exchanging business cards with someone. It's not like Facebook, I don't need to know them personally to connect because I only use LI for business/networking purposes.

This is how I feel. I don't look at Linked in like I do facebook. I will let pretty much anyone connect. Never hurts to network in my opinion.

No criteria at all. I get connect requests from people I've never met, people I've never talked to before, people I went to high school with but haven't seen in years. Obviously don't feel obligated to say yes to all of them, but I don't think there are any specifics on who you can and can't send them to, which is probably why you're getting so many.

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