I love the well-informed rant. You have lots of interesting points. As a person, I'm glad LinkedIn exists as an appropriate place for business connections. I a

I love the well-informed rant. You have lots of interesting points. As a person, I'm glad LinkedIn exists as an appropriate place for business connections. I am not always keen on having coworkers as Facebook friends. LinkedIn does a good job of keeping track of contacts. “Is the freelance lighting designer available? Our intern from two years ago is working on a great project.” Can LinkedIn do more and do what it does now even better? Certainly. Do I feel their current incarnation fails? Not really. I don't want LinkedIn to be more pervasive in my life than it is. It's good enough to just "be there" and maybe give a soft email every two weeks. Also, thanks so much for the kind words! I hope to fond a job soon, but I'm really just excited to be on the West Coast.