WARNING... think before you ask a LinkedIn Question

A few days ago LinkedIn launched "Answers". The service was universally acknowledged as a great new feature, and then the SPAM questions started.

LinkedIn certainly listened and, from MLPF, I know a few had their accounts restricted.

Here's the official line - "Please don’t contribute to [LinkedIn Answers] by posting "Questions" (or answers) that are requests for invitations or ads or solicitations. People who misuse this feature will have their accounts restricted. People who have a history of misusing LinkedIn may lose their accounts."

But beyond this, there is something else to consider. When you ask a question you can automatically send the question to your contacts (up to 200, I think).

When they receive your "question" there is also a little link which they can click on to remove you as a connection.

I actually this is a very smart move from LinkedIn.

Keep spamming your connections with thinly veiled , self-promotional "questions" and guess what, you'll not have many connections left.

And remember, once a connection is broken you cannot reconnect.


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