Like with everything else, I signed up as soon as it started but I didn't do much with it. I tend to do that as soon as a new web service, or social site is born, mainly to hog my preferred username before someone else gets it. I then turned Miklas onto it, and he seemed to take it as some sort of competition quickly gathering up many many more connections than me. "I got ninety connections how many do you have?" he'd beam from his computer. Tss!

It's only now that it finally hit me that having ones contacts constantly updated, in a downloadable format is tres practical. My friends get new jobs, they fix their linkedin page, and I have their new info. Nice. So I've dusted off my account and deleted the twenty odd makebelieve mails that Linkedin thought I had (it seemed to collect every mail addy that people contacted me by or something) and I've added a few new connections. Now I finally can say, hey, check out my page on Linkedin.