Love LinkedIn, BUT…….

I love LinkedIn , as I’ve said in the past. It’s brought me some great contacts and truly serves as my main resume. It’s easy to update and incredibly easy to share. When I apply for writing or other positions I simply point people toward my LinkedIn profile. I recently had a twitter conversation with someone in which we both (not really jokingly) declared that we’ll never write another resume - if people want to hire us, they can use our LinkedIn profile. My absolute favorite part about LI is the recommendations feature. I love the fact that what are essentially your letters of recommendation are attached to your profile for anyone to see - recommending someone is easier than writing an email and most importantly, requesting a recommendation is equally easy. The Problem Now for the gripe - I’m sorry it had to come to this, but this is an issue for me. LinkedIn now has an opt-OUT format for adding connections from your email - this is NOT id...