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Whether it's a person, a concept, an incorporeal entity, or a corporation, when we get upset with them, one of the hardest possible things for us to do is to admit they may have been right about ANY issue.

Of course, acquiescing to one out of a myriad of issues doesn't mean that you'd have to blanketly acquiesce to all differences but, um, how do I say this - without inviting countless "I told you so's"?

So, as carefully as I can state a change in opinion about one matter, here goes...

After being back on Linkedin for a couple of months after my voluntary 90-day hiatus, I started to slowly join a few Linkedin groups. (What can I say, I'm a groupie. We'll just have to live with that...)

BUT, as I started to join those groups, Linkedin implemented its discussion feature for Linkedin Groups.

Now, before I left Linkedin, I'd created just under 100 groups of my own with total memberships of somewhere between 45-65,000. Further to my own groups, I have no earthly idea how many hundreds of other groups I'd joined! But, it was LOTS! Hundreds, for sure...

I'm now in just 32 groups, including 4 or 5 I've created.

But now with the discussions feature added, even with my belonging to just 32 groups, the volume of email is QUITE PRONOUNCED! (I clock about 1,200 messages every day even without messages from Linkedin Groups.)

That means that if 32 groups generated a VERY NOTICEABLE INCREASE in my email message load, think about what being in 50 groups would do. And just IMAGINE what being in FIVE HUNDRED Linkedin groups would do to your email volume. (Of course, some of it consists of repeat email messages from cross-postings on different groups within the same professional discipline.)

So, even though I kind of liked all those groups I used to own and belong to, I don't think I would have wanted 10, 20, or even 50 times more email messages than I'm currently getting from Linkedin Groups...

Thus, though the implementation wasn't necessarily the best, it appears that Linkedin may have been correct in limiting members to 50 groups - at least in terms of this measure. (I'm fully aware that Facebook has a group limit of 200 and that Yahoo Groups has no limit...)

How are you handling the increase in messages from Linkedin Groups?

Vincent Wright
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