Linkedin is a lil different from myspace. Its about professional connections, and if you've used it yourself, the friend request dialogue asks in what professional circumstances you know someone, if you don't know them professionally it restricts you.
Long story short, I'm connected with Robin Walker on linked in and I noticed for the first time in a few weeks he has a new connection; Wolfgang Hammer, co-president of CBS Films and director of AwesomenessTV, a subsidary of Dreamworks animation.
While this may be a nonchalant interaction...