Does Linking In Gets you a Job ?

I am reading with passion a Businessweek article by Marianne Paskowski and found it appealing to me and I thought up of writing about it.

After hearing many people Marianne finally decided to make a profile at LinkedIN. She “contacted about a dozen of my LinkedIn connections, mostly from the TV industry and many of them reeling from recent layoffs at their companies, asking why they’re on LinkedIn and if they get any value out of their experience.”
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