LinkedIn is a great professional networking site. Businesses and recruiters are increasingly using LinkedIn profiles to assist them to make recruiting decisions. What they see, including your connections, recommendations, and even your profile image, can either help or hurt your chances of landing the job you want.

LinkedIn’s advice

Only accept connection requests from individuals “you know well and who you recognize on a corporate basis,” according to LinkedIn’s own recommendations and of course, the first argument in the debate. This can be somewhat restrictive, and there is some benefit in broadening your connection field a little farther. However, you run the risk of exposing not just your personal past, but also your contact information, corporate phone number, contacts, connections, and so on, by opening up your profile to strangers.

Hacker group found on LinkedIn

In April of last year, it was discovered that a hacker group was selling a repository of personal data extracted from 500 million LinkedIn clients, which involved a majority of the information and more, which the group had cobbled together by incorporating the LinkedIn mentioned details with other online databases in a way to construct a more comprehensive personal info profile on a large number of people.

LinkedIn claims that this organisation did not breach its databases, but that it was able to obtain information from both public and private listings, the latter originating via random connections in the app.

What should we finally do?

It appears to be less of a problem because all of your posts will be viewed by some of your first-degree connections in the app, and some of them are likely to engage. However, if you’re not getting good responses, it might not be the best technique for expanding your reach.

Different people will have different ideas, and some L.I.O.Ns will stand by their ‘networking at scale’ method, as previously said. However, you must consider all of the factors. You’ll have to decide for yourself how you handle LinkedIn connection requests in the end. Accepting all connection requests or only those from people you know will have to be a personal decision depending on your business goals and your comfort level with doing things online.