[via Loic]

Loic tells us an interesting but quite bad story about a strange experience he made by linking somebody he didn’t really known in LinkedIn… The story itself is more an anecdote to my mind, the conclusion brings the added value:

Conclusion:
1. be careful when you give endorsements to people you don’t know enough
2. accept connections from people you know only
3. Social software, blogs and the Web in general create a transparency that should be respected and dealt with. If you play with it, it will burn you one day or another.

As usual, no difference between the “Internet world” and “Real world”. Too many people are still forgetting that…or are thinking that you can behave yourself in a bad way, just because they are on-line.

By the way, Loic also gives us some figures about LinkedIn:

OpenBC seems to have about 500,000 users total and claims to be the biggest in Europe but
1. LinkedIn adds this number of users (500,000) every two months currently and it keeps growing
2. LinkedIn has 1 million European users whereas Open BC has 500,000 worldwide and Linked In hasn’t even localized their product

You can also find me under LinkedIn.