For a year, number of Linkedin users is going exponential vs time. When I look at number of connections vs network ratio (for myself), it can be seen that people are more and more connected with each other.

I am not inviting any more people as I reached the number of people I am allowed to invite. The growth seen in the green curve (numbers of 1st level connections) is purely passive.

I have received 12 invitations per day for the last year. I am not advertizing my email anymore in my profile as it is now "strictly" forbidden, I mainly receive invitaions from LIONS and toplinked users. By the way, I did not see any diminution in the number of received invitations when removing my email from my profile.

see graph here: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DwobtSZXM7s/SMQmcEgbqgI/AAAAAAAAAuI/nL3OWB7LnCw/s1600/Listory2007-04- 13_18340_image001.gif


Post edited by: emariacher, at: 2008/09/07 10:45

I receive about 30+ (average) invitations per day. It's nothing to do with email address promotion (within LinkedIn, in your name field, headline, or so on). Yet, it's everything to do with the way you expand your network: whether you put your email address in mailing list of LIONs, Invites Welcome!, TopLinked.com, MyLinkNetwork.com, and so on.

Thank you for sharing your experience.

Best,

Nicolas Liu

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Just curious. How many 1st level linkedin contacts do you have?

By the way, I also participate to all these groups, but not as a paying member.

Post edited by: emariacher, at: 2008/09/07 12:58

Certainly, my number could not match what you have. The reason: I only began to build my network since July 2008 (from single digit), and experienced learning curve errors (as many) as other newbies. I'm still try to improve networking and correct those errors. So far, I have 4,150+ 1st degree connections.

Best,

Nicolas Liu

● Open to Learn ● Open to Discuss ● Open to Help ● Open to Connect ●