#7: Private Network?

You can choose whether your connections can see your other connections.

Do you want a connection to see everyone else in your network?

You have the choice to allow this, or not.

LinkedIn is all about connections — and connections of connections. So it may seem counter-intuitive to hide your connections, but you may have good reasons for wanting to do so.

Protect your clients and friends from unscrupulous people. Some salespeople make it a habit of claiming that you recommended them when they contact your connections.

If you are looking for a new position under the radar, you won't want your current employers to see that you're connected to lots of recruiters, or even competitors.

You may not want to expose your client list readily to others.

You just prefer privacy.

It all depends on how you are using LinkedIn, and how you view your own, and your connections' privacy.People can conduct detailed searches that look solely through your connections using LinkedIn. So it's worth consideration.How to change your connections' visibility statusThe shortcut to this setting is at https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/connections-visibility and there is a simple binary choice.On means others can see your connections.Off means only you can see your connections.

It's a binary choice. On or Off.