And the answers keep coming...

Just last week, we chronicled New York Times' columnist David Pogue's question,  "LinkedIn...Why?",  which already had nearly 100 answers on his blog. Some of the answers ranged from staying in touch to fulfilling the promise of professional networking and so we solicited answers to the same question from users at the end of our own blog post.

Thus far, we've received over 35 answers and look forward to hearing your take on why you use LinkedIn. Here's a smattering of answers from users at different stages of adoption; some a few days old and some joined LinkedIn a few years ago. Here they are:

Anil Raina (India); formerly Associate Director, Strategic Planning at Dr. Reddy's Laboratories just started using LinkedIn a few days ago and here are some of his thoughts:

I am still new to Linkedin - joined only around 9 days back. Even in this short duration, I have been able to locate a lot of my old friends, classmates and colleagues, with whom I would have liked to stay in touch but could not do so.

I am sure that other benefits will also start flowing in, once I start making use of all the features being offered by LinkedIn connectivity.

Mariano Errichiello (Italy), currently Vice President External Relations AIESEC South America, has been using it for longer than Anil and is working on expanding his "working" network?:

I started using LinkedIn few months ago and soon I got the utility. It's an independent platform to share peoples' networks and take advantages by it. I keep on using it cause me, as VP External Relations, I need such kind of tools to expand my network and earn credibility. Right now I'm just taking care of my profile and sharing my network...as soon as possible I'm gonna start to use it to enlarge my "working" network.

Eric Mariacher (USA), who has been on LinkedIn for longer than Mariano and Anil currently find the following most useful to him:

Here are the 2 main advantages I see in using LinkedIn:

* "get recommendations from current and past colleagues posted on your profile"

That is one of the top feature that does not exists when simply posting your resume on the web.

* "make heavy use of the Q&A feature on LinkedIn"

Show your competencies and what you stand for by using one of the top "LinkedIn plus" feature. By browsing through your questions and answers people wanting to know you better will get a better feeling of who you are.

Speaking of new users, we recently added our 14 millionth user and had a mid-day soiree at our Mountain View HQ to celebrate the occasion. Check out some of the pictures we took on the occasion on the left hand tab on this page under "photos". You can also access all the 421 pictures we've added thus far to the LinkedIn photo pool. Take a trip down memory lane with us; images include those taken at the Webbys & Lunch 2.0,  cube chic, picnics, softball games, in the black party, etc... You get the picture...

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