FAQs of (Web) Life: An Advice Column

[Guest]

Tom's Guide's Aubre Andrus tackles your thorniest tech-life questions in our experimental advice column. This week we tackle LinkedIn stalking, the future of email, Klout, and Twitter fears.

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[gerchokas]

There was a time when everybody would use MSN messenger, e-mail accounts, blogs/photologs, etc... now its just one big thing: Facebook. For better or worse.

 

[Guest]

Another question related to LinkedIn: I'm fairly new to LinkedIn and am unsure of proper LinkedIn etiquette. When is it appropriate to ask for a connection? If you have met someone at a few different networking events, can you link to them? Or, are links really only meant for people you've worked closely with or know on a deeper level. Also, is there a different set of rules depending on the title of the potential link?