Agreed. LinkedIn, in its current implementation, is a glorified resume database. I use it to look up people and find out their background. It's terrible at help

Agreed. LinkedIn, in its current implementation, is a glorified resume database. I use it to look up people and find out their background. It's terrible at helping me make new connections. I should know, that's partly why we founded http://letslunch.com http://letslunch.com. We felt that the LinkedIn introduction "the InMail" just didn't work. So we implemented a sort of reverse-Facebook concept: meet people who are not your friends yet. So far, it has been really successful at growing people's connections, where LinkedIn, in my opinion, failed miserably. I met people through LetsLunch who are great, cool, entrepreneurs, and I would never have met them otherwise.