Misconceptions about Networking
Author :
Wetfeet
A timid young woman named Jane
Found parties a terrible strain;
With movements uncertain
She’d hide in a curtain
And make sounds like a rabbit in pain.
If Edward Gorey’s limerick above strikes us as funny, it’s because there’s a little bit of Jane in many of us. A lot of people avoid networking because they think of it as difficult, distasteful, or even a little sleazy. These objections may seem fair enough, but they’re based on several pernicious misconceptions about networking: