I know very few of the people in my connections or they are so distantly removed from what I do that the connection is of no use at least professionally.

I can't honestly say I have even opened LinkedIn in the past year so I would have to say it is of no value to me. Initially, spam overloaded my email and InBox so I never really attempted to use it as it was initially intended because of the spam.

I did meet a few people I otherwise would not have because of searching profiles of people who were speaking at conferences I was attending but otherwise I have not used it to any real benefit.