Manners for the Twenty-First Century

[rolanni]

OK, somebody explain LinkedIn to me. I have an account. Why I have an account escapes me at the moment, doubtless it had to do with procrastinating while on deadline or something similar. Lots of nice people want me to join their Circles of Influence, Associates Lists, Business Networks and Groups. I've been ignoring them, not through malice, but through a genuine lack of cluefulness. What is this thing for, in theory, and how is it supposed to work?

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[lagilman]

Oh. I would never think of Facebook as anything other than a social site (even though I seem to be collecting as many reader-friends as old-highschool-buddy friends), and I certainly wouldn't expect a publisher to look there...

And yes, as I said earlier, LinkedIn is a very useful work tool. I just have my doubts about its relative usefulness to the fiction writer.