I added myself to different open networking groups to see if there was any possibility to get contacts that where active in domains I am not. And I got perhaps 20-30 contacts in short.

But Im not so sure I will get anything out of it since the tactics of many (not all, I know) seems to be
1. Connect to as many as possible
2. Change profile often to show activity
3. Comment on other open networkers profile/status changes
4. Add discussions but only a teaser part of the discussion and link to external blogs where the comment are expected instead of at Linkedin

I see some issues with this since Linkedin is supposed to be a high quality social network for business purposes (I could be mistaken of course) so the following questions arise:
1. How do one nurture the relations with everyone?
2. Is this to popup on connections different activitylists?
3. See #2
4. Why not keep the discussion at one source?

A guess the answer to all questions is, at the end, to drive as much traffic to external websites as possible and hope for leads or ad network income?

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When discussing subjects with different people on Twitter or Linkedin, I most often want to connect with them on that network if it has been a discussion that I felt gave me something in form of knowledge or insights. 

I know that in daily life we meet people, interact with them and never see some of them again but in for example Linkedin or Twitter I feel its a bit different since I dont have to never see them again.

Is this the right way to go, wanting to connect with people if we have things in common through discussions or share ideas?

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What is it that triggers a visitor on a blog to comment and discuss on a blog except for getting traffic to their own blog, an interesting subject and just wanting to say something?

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