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Thanks for your kind words, Ehab. Perhaps a little passage of time will help this become clearer. In the meantime, if I can help you with your networking efforts, please let me know. .. Vincent Wright – Vincent Wright, on August 15, 2008 03:03

EXACTIMUNDO, blonde & loving it! EXACTIMUNDO, indeed!

Especially this statement of yours: "Unfortunately all of the numerous hard-workers who have done no wrong are paying the price for a few abusers. It could be likened to a community that has a few crooks and instead of the police going after the few crooks and prosecuting them; the whole community is jailed. This is what LinkedIn is doing to the LinkedIn user networking community."

Scott, while Adam Nash sufficiently answered the original question about the 50 Groups limit, you bring up a different matter of great importance: what to do with evangelists once the evangelizing is over - once evangelizing is no longer needed

While many of us devoted thousands of hours of our own time encouraging people within our reach to take Linkedin seriously, Linkedin's dismissive attitude towards some of its most ardent evangelists makes its recent successes meaningless to those of us who had longed to see Linkedin reach the numbers it's now reaching....

Yet, while I did remove my Linkedin membership - from a pure business development perspective - I *still* recommend that business professionals use Linkedin - I just don't go out of my way to do so any longer. Linkedin is a good place for business professionals. But, Linkedin is not a good place for Linkedin evangelists (like me)

I fully support your post, Scott... – Vincent Wright, on August 08, 2008 17:49

I'm not sure what Spock's issue is with providing its users with a simple delete button but, I agree with you ONE HUNDRED PERCENT. It's beyond annoying to come upon that rare, rare, rarest of sites which will not permit its members from deleting an email address from their own accounts. Further to that, let's say that I wanted to delete me Spock account and start over with a fresh one - one where I can completely control all email addresses associated with my name: there is no way that I can see where I can delete my account. I may be wrong but, something is fishy here... And I don't like that type of feeling... I would have happily referred my network to Spock but, now, that's IMPOSSIBLE... – Vincent Wright, on August 08, 2008 15:15

For me, this answers the question. Thanks, Adam... – Vincent Wright, on August 07, 2008 15:51

Though like "LinkedOut" I'm no longer a Linkedin member, I still work with a lot of people who still are - people who still have high hopes of using Linkedin to do business better. Based upon their conversations with me, many of my former Linkedin connections would agree with the points "Linkedout" is asking here on GetSatisfaction.com. Many of these members still like Linkedin as a service but do not like the way Linkedin is making them *FEEL*.

No mater how financially successful Linkedin is - if too many people start to think that it feels bad to use Linkedin's services, eventually the end users bad feelings could start to affect Linkedin's bottom line. It may not appear that that's at all possible at this time but, it wouldn't surprise me if/when it happens.

To me, some of Linkedin's biggest recent problems has to do with perception.

Linkedin has a certain perception of its user population(s). Those perceptions lead to decisions which affect *multiple* populations - not just the intended ones. That, in turn, leads to users changing their perception of the value they get from Linkedin. It's not about software, it's about perception.

As odd as it may seem: people turn to services like Linkedin because they want to feel better than they did PRIOR to using the service. If Linkedin is not going to help them to feel better about getting and conducting business via the Linkedin platform then what's the point of using Linkedin services? No matter how carefully, how scientifically a system is architected, the bottom line is that people still need to feel good about using it. A growing number of people I know aren't feeling that way about Linkedin's changes right now....Think about it.

To the specific issue at hand, "LinkedOut" asks a very good question when he asks: "Adam - if, as you claim, "there are a very small number of people outside of this limit" - then why not simply allow those "small number of people" to stay in all of the groups that THEY CHOSE TO BE IN until such time as THEY choose to delete some?"

Seems like a fair question to me...

Very good, detailed response. I appreciate it. However, let me be more specific about my issue; Let's say that I was a marketing consultant for a small company and that small company provided me an email address for marketing campaigns. I add that email address to my Spock account. My professional relationship with that client company ends. I can not remove from my account the email address I once used for my former client. ****IF*** the client still has that email address and ***IF*** the client knows that I added that email address to my Spock account THEN that former client has the same MEANS OF ACCESS to my Spock account as I do. Is the above scenario correct? If so, then my data isn't safe. My Spock account is no longer safe for me to use, correct?

Keep STRONG!
Vincent – Vincent Wright, on August 07, 2008 05:50

Asking, same issue, Day 4: Since emails are used for access, how can we remove an old email address from Spock? http://gsfn.us/t/jw0

Bill,
Few people could be more annoyed with Linkedin's changes over the last year than I am however, irrespective of how annoying and off-putting some of those changes may prove to me personally, I'd like to encourage you to reconsider depriving those 100 job seekers of your considerable insights into how Linkedin can help them expedite their job search. Bottom line: If it were me, I'd still show them the benefit they can get from using Linkedin - carefully, that is... – Vincent Wright, on August 02, 2008 20:39

Friend just informed me she had to write to Spock to have old email address removed! Not very flexible... :-(

Not necessarily to my *immediate* favor, Eric but, long term, I believe it does/will resolve in my favor. E.g., while it may appear in the short term that a lot of work - or at least a large percentage of work - has been lost, I'm looking favorably on exploring other social media options I'd been overlooking over the past 3+ years...

(If the above is too convoluted to follow, let me get a cup of coffee and I'll try a shorter/better explanation! :-))

Keep STRONG!!
Vincent