I'm doing a day of catch-up work on email, blogs and also Linked In, Facebook and of course Forum Oxford.

And those darn invitations at Linked In (and even worse, Facebook) are such a PAIN to manage. (I don't mean that you should not connect with me, I do believe in, and want to support these virtual contacts, BUT) I don't want to accept every random connection-hog invitation by someone with 500+ links on Linked In, who sends me a standard invitation and clearly isn't even working in my industry. (Oh, anyone who links in with me and says they read the blog, is an automatic acceptance - of course, ha-ah)

But equally, there are the random contacts from someone who attended one of my workshops, who perhaps does not speak English very well, and is very shy about contacting me, and has perhaps 15 links and kind of is a newcomer to Linked In. Every time I have to click on the invitation, read the invite, then click on the person's page to see who they are and what their company does (and how many links they have, I am very skeptical of all contacts who have 500 or more links)... Oh, and Facebook is even worse. Once I leave the contact invitations page - there is no link back to it (that I've found). So its a hideous hassle to do serious consideration of Facebook link contacts.

Is this just me or is this way too much of a hassle to handle new invitations properly. Maybe I'm getting too old for this industry ha-ha..

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