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LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented social networking service that operates via websites and mobile apps.

Founded on December 28, 2002, and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs.

As of 2015, most of the company's revenue came from selling access to information about its members to recruiters and sales professionals.

As of September 2016, LinkedIn had more than 467 million accounts, out of which more than 106 million are active.

LinkedIn allows members (both workers and employers) to create profiles and "connections" to each other in an online social network which may represent real-world professional relationships.

Members can invite anyone (whether an existing member or not) to become a connection.

The "gated-access approach" (where contact with any professional requires either an existing relationship or an introduction through a contact of theirs) is intended to build trust among the service's members.

LinkedIn participated in the EU's International Safe Harbor Privacy Principles.

A professional network service (or, in an Internet context, simply professional network) is a type of social network service that is focused solely on interactions and relationships of a business nature rather than including personal, nonbusiness interactions.

Internet identity (IID), also online identity or internet persona is a social identity that an Internet user establishes in online communities and websites.

It can also be considered as an actively constructed presentation of oneself.

Although some people choose to use their real names online, some Internet users prefer to be anonymous, identifying themselves by means of pseudonyms, which reveal varying amounts of personally identifiable information.

An online identity may even be determined by a user's relationship to a certain social group they are a part of online.

Some can even be deceptive about their identity.

In the social sciences, a social group has been defined as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively have a sense of unity.

Other theorists disagree however, and are wary of definitions which stress the importance of interdependence or objective similarity.

Instead, researchers within the social identity tradition generally define it as "a group is defined in terms of those who identify themselves as members of the group".

Regardless, social groups come in a myriad of sizes and varieties.

For example, a society can be viewed as a large social group.