I think it does. I appreciate LinkedIn is a bit like Facebook nowadays with people posting corporate lunch pictures and how their grandmother started a bakery w

I think it does. I appreciate LinkedIn is a bit like Facebook nowadays with people posting corporate lunch pictures and how their grandmother started a bakery while bombs were dropping and etc. That's noise and it does exist in every social platform. There are a lot of people on LinkedIn that have decision making power to hire, start projects, etc. There are lots of business owners too. I had some most amazing discussion with people I'd have no chance meeting on daily basis. Just last week I was talking to a potential vendor. A few min into the conversation and he says that their tech guy is well aware of me.How? Because of some things I posted about their competitors, where everyone from newly hired secretary all the way to the CEO liked it and kept It going for free PR. I think for LinkedIn to be useful you simply need to know what you want from it. Is it jobs, clients, some specialist knowledge, new friends,etc. All of it is possible but requires slightly different approaches.