Actually a great idea. Have your friends create one too, and you'll have a complete clean, employable, social graph.
"Put it all together and I think we all now see the fundamental utility of LinkedIn — it’s the one place where you can demonstrate how honest, decent and accomplished you are, even if you have to lie and cheat to do it." http://www.creators.com/lifestylefeatures/humor/work-daze/li...