In looking through the profiles of some of my past co-workers, the ones who have the most impressive profiles roughly coorelate to the weakest software develope

In looking through the profiles of some of my past co-workers, the ones who have the most impressive profiles roughly coorelate to the weakest software developers I've ever known. I just have to shake my head and laugh. The absolute least productive person I've ever worked with by far, has a tremendous profile: 191 connections, 27 people have recommended, 3 dozen corporations in the last 15 years where he's listed himself as Architect, Consultant, Senior, Project Leader. Also loaded with an impressive mass of buzzwords. So, from my experience, LinkedIn really can provide a great informational service and you don't even have to sign up for it! If you Google someone and find little or nothing except their trumped-up LinkedIn profile, then that should tell you something about their motivations.