The contact list never ends
The contact list never ends
Do you know Robinson-Crusoe-Syndrome? Robinson Crusoe was the tragic hero in the novel by Daniel Defoe, a shipwrecked man, who has to spend 28 years all alone on a desert island. That's what I call the supposed loneliness of new networkers who, after a series of recruitment-talks, come to the terrible realization that they don't know anyone anymore to talk to.
That would really be a sad fate - if it were objectively true. In fact, each of us knows between 600 and 800 people, according to the statistics. Subjectively, I can understand this feeling of not knowing anyone anymore. There may be three reasons behind this, but these are more personal: