The Problem With SixDegrees

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        SixDegrees devalues personal referrals by making connections too explicit.  Telling 
        someone to use my name as an introduction is valuable to me.  I don't want my fifth 
        degrees contacting my first degrees and saying "I know you through Jerry."  Yech.  
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        During my first meeting with Andrew Weinrich, the founder, I suggested he speak with at 
        least a dozen people, using my name for introduction.  At the end of the meeting, I noted 
        to him that I wouldn't have put any of those people into SixDegrees.  
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