We all receive for connections on social networking sites such as LinkedIn or Facebook. It is a good idea to filter the requests appropriately. My own rules are as follows - I am sharing these because some of these requests may be coming from you students!
Facebook and Orkut: I will become friends with anyone who files a request, even a Kalashnikov-carrying Taliban. But I will usually not join any groups that I don't know as that seems more dangerous to me.
LinkedIn and Xing: I will usually connect with only those who a) I know very well and/or have worked with, or b) who are clearly good at what they do.
You may want to create your own such rules over time.
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My pet irritant - someone really junior failing to modify the standard draft LinkedIn invitation template text before shooting it to me. The poor invite lands in dust invariably.
Sir,
why in your opinion it is ok to accept all the friend requests??
Dear sir,
I strongly agree with you, Because i also believe that social and professional network are two different identity to show your personality.
Draw a line and doing filtration between both can help us to not get in to trouble, once we want to achieve a clear goal in life.
Hello..! Sir..!
Your insights are very right.
but in my case i generally do a round check on who are the existing friends of the new request which to an extent help me in ascertaining that the person is real and not very harmless.
But at this moment i do make a mistake that may be the person whom I am accepting will not be in touch for long time so at times I am just adding names into my database.
So sir my question to you sir is that is it really important to have many names in your database though you'll be in touch with only 20% frequently?
Yes sir, i also follow some rules to make new friends.
Thanks for your advice.......
Thanks for the insight, Manu, and for the comments Jagrat, Divyesh, Ved and Priyanka.
Priyanka, I must admit I only accept all the requests on Facebook because I am very nervous that I will reject someone whom I have met and talked to. People like SM and myself (SM more than me) come in touch with thousands of others and we want to be sure we do not offend them.
Jagrat, I think the number of connections is not important per se. But you never know what you can learn from someone or when you may need someone's help or when you may be able to help someone.
Hello sir,
I do agree but sir don't you think we are business school, at this stage we start to build our network with professionals, if you can't accept request then how would we proceed further in building network?
Anyways in this matter I would like to make you something bias to have a look on Profile of particular student, if you find something exclusive then you should proceed further.......
Thanks
Proton Neelesh Dani
Same here, i own 4 communities on orkut.com including Proton's community, "adding people" helps me to gain knowledge of their area, college, business or company, etc.
for eg. -
before joining Proton, I got many valuable aspects about Proton by adding friends on social networking sites. as a result it helped me for making a good decision.
but we must carefully grow our network on these sites, as hackers are every where, in any form, we can't find them.
Thanks!
Hello sir! Even i believe that we must accept requests from people we know well and with whom we will stay in touch for a long period of time.I follow this rule even with social sites.We even got a chance to see SM sir's account on LinkedIn in one of the sessions and i have understood that one must accept friend request cautiously. Thanks
Hello sir.....
thank you very much for developing longterm soft skills like this . i'll also try to apply the same in related areas...
hello sir,
According to me ,we have to keep balance between our social and professional life..thank you so much for ur guidance
Helllo!
sir,
what i feel is for a person like you and sandeep sir who have a long list of acquaintances,friends, collegues it is a bit difficult to remember if you have met the 'X' person or not so you have to accept the requests so as not to offend them but for a person like me, i can easily understand/get to know if i know the person or not.so i have a choice to accept/reject the friend request.
thank you
Sir,
I believe that, accepting requests on orkut or facebook, and once in a week or two posting a scrap or a message to few is not a bad idea, because it ensures our token of remembrance for them which would make a relationship stronger!
Nilesh, Alok, Jaya, Umang, Manish, Umesh, Seema, Hetvee, thanks for your comments. Seema, your observation is correct. Hetvee, you'll feel this way even more as you grow older and busier - I was surprised how much I enjoyed birthday greetings this year from friends on Facebook.
hello sir,
i think that we must be choosy in accepting requests whether its Orkut or Linkedln because i strongly believe in a great sentence said by one of the great leaders that ''IF YOU WANT TO FLY WITH EAGLES THEN STOP WASTING YOUR TIME WITH DUCKS''
regards,
Kirandeep Singh
Nice quote. And true, believe me :-)
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