The colleagues, business partners, classmates or friends you add to your professional network on LinkedIn are known as “connections.” Anyone you add to your LinkedIn network becomes a “first degree” connection, and this enables you to endorse and recommend each other, view contact information and communicate through network updates and LinkedIn’s email message service. Typically, you can also view your connection’s own network of contacts and communicate with them. Writer Bio

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