How to accumulate over 81,000.?

Colin, whatever makes you comfortable. There is a nice community here with a core group of regulars that enjoy each other’s company and value their contributions. Have fun! That’s what we do :)

Thanks Riyadh, I am not a Guru. I am just like you, look at the positive side of things mate.

Increasing your Network Connection base is very beneficial in so many ways so for those who are wondering what the purpose is or benefit, I would like to give you a brief of how I personally found it useful:

1- Mentoring / Assistance: In many cases, I connect with people and they send me a thank you message for connecting with them and say that they are new here and were wondering how they can start on this platform so I help them out get started here. Some people feel shy or not comfortable taking a first step.

2- Enhancing the Community Engagement: Item 1, leads to enhanced member engagement with this community as soon as they get their head around it and understand how much of an amazing platform and community it is. I feel that everyone of us should have a sense of ownership towards this community to try as much as he/she can to work towards enhancing it.

3- Connecting on other Platforms: In many occasions when I connect with people here, they send me a thank you message and tell me that they are not very active here and ask to connect on LinkedIn and share expertise. I did benefit a lot from so many people.

4- Connecting in Person: In many occasions, I connected with people on person via connecting through this platform and some of them (To be specific 2), we became friends although they are not very active here.

In summary, Network connections has so many advantages. You just need to look at the positive side of things and look whats beyond that number. I am not saying I am connection with all my connections but I certainly connected with a decent no. of people. (If you connect closely with 500 people out of the 80,000, this is a great achievement - This a small percentage maybe but a big number).

To address other issues that were mentioned:

1- Having Connections contributes very minimal to your influence. Check the rules under how to increase your influence.

2- It takes times to build a network base, it builds over time. There is no automatic connect thing except for the one that PMI created that connects you automatically to people from your chapter and you can turn that off.

3- At least 4 of our fellow colleagues who have huge Network Connection base are very active on this community and adds a lot of value.

For me, it is not about adding connections to show off the number. It is about the whole package of me being a member of this community, leading by example, contributing, helping, connecting, learning and the goes on.

excellent reasoning

Andrew , I like the wording you've said here it is true and I agree with you 100%

This is a question I have though about. Not because I want 80,000 connections, but because I wonder how it is done. Particularly since I have noticed a few who's connections grow at a consistently high rate. I don't believe someone is sitting at the computer connecting with a hundreds of new users a day for example.

So, the pessimist in me theorizes (and yes it's just a theory without serious contemplation or conviction) that some members have an automatic connection of new users into their profile. I have run membership forums before and know there can be a software toggle to do this.

Some of my good colleagues are very high up in the connections count, and I am not suggesting this is the case with them (and it doesn't matter if it was). But if they were to tell me that it isn't the case, I guess I would have to come up with another theory lol. It hasn't been important enough for me to ask.

Having said that, at the end of the day this site isn't about the number of connections, it's about the content and connections we communicate with regularly.

Moloy, you mentioned about an option to send multiple requests, are you doing that application?