Several popular bloggers (such as Guy Kawasaki) make their LinkedIn page easy to find - I don't know if they necessarily accept every request though. I haven't used the site too much myself, but I recently added a lot of people that I know so I could use it to search for specific kinds of people that they might know.
As far as I can tell, having more people in your network is usually good because you can see who they know and it's easier to contact those people. Plus, if the other person invited you to join their network they probably wouldn't hesitate to introduce you to someone you want to meet.
Personally I wouldn't turn down an invitation from anyone that I know of, but I'm not quite as famous so I don't know what the effect of having one-sided relationships in my network would be. It does increase the information available to you though, which is the whole point of the site. |