You have 5 choices to make when someone invites you to join their network
- Accept but always send a personal message immediately thanking them for inviting you to join their network
- If you’re not sure about this person click the ‘reply’ button and send them a message asking them to remind you where you met or why they want to link in with you
- Archive the request …and hope they forget and won’t ask you again!
- Click the button ‘I don’t know this person’
- Click the button ‘flag as spam’
Beware of LIONS!
There are people out there who appear to be going for the world record of how many people they can link in with. They are called LIONS- LinkedIn Open Networkers. When people request to link in with me and I know for certain we have never met I always click one of the last two. I am reliably informed this information goes back to LinkedIn headquarters who decide to cancel these spammer’s (oops sorry people’s) profile on LinkedIn. I believe this does not happen where people announce to the world they are a LION in their profile.
