Your opinion on LinkedIn... (person, present, attractive, deleted)
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"I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn."
What is your opinion of this?
Every so often I get this request. I tend to ignore them. Okay, I always ignore them. I try to keep my internet world in control. I don't need my name out there everywhere.
I don't use LinkedIn. I just scroll down to the bottom of the message and click the little link that says something about not receiving any further notifications. I don't get them anymore.
You are giving away your complete privacy and then they screw with you.
Your personal and professional info is blastered all over the web. Other shady webpages pick get your info from them. They access your personal email account and send out invites to your contacts in YOUR name.
I was on it for a few weeks and once I deleted my account, you could still see my info it for half a year. I only coincidentally found out about it when I googled my name and still could see all my information. Once I contacted them about my deleted account, they had some fishy answer that google didn't update their info yet and made it public without their consent.
You're getting these notices because your email is in someone else's email contact list, and there is a feature on LinkedIn to invite your whole address book.
I think LinkedIn is useful professionally, more in certain fields than others. I have 1500-2000 connections right now, and many of these connections have endorsed and recommended me for certain skills. I have the maximum number of viewable endorsements (99+) on all my top skills. Do these endorsements and recommendations mean anything? It's dubious, but it looks good. The large network also affords me a large network of persons I can message should I need to during a job search.
Your personal and professional info is blastered all over the web. Other shady webpages pick get your info from them. They access your personal email account and send out invites to your contacts in YOUR name.
I was on it for a few weeks and once I deleted my account, you could still see my info it for half a year. I only coincidentally found out about it when I googled my name and still could see all my information. Once I contacted them about my deleted account, they had some fishy answer that google didn't update their info yet and made it public without their consent.
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LinkedIn doesn't do this email blast without your consent. There is an "add connections" item from the "connections" menu where you can sign into an email account, then it pulls the contact metadata. It doesn't do this automatically, nor is it a one click process to get there. You have to make some effort to do it.
I agree that these mailings are a nuisance, but I am pretty certain there is a way to opt-out of future emails of this type in the email itself.
LinkedIn doesn't do this email blast without your consent. There is an "add connections" item from the "connections" menu where you can sign into an email account, then it pulls the contact metadata. It doesn't do this automatically, nor is it a one click process to get there. You have to make some effort to do it.
I agree that these mailings are a nuisance, but I am pretty certain there is a way to opt-out of future emails of this type in the email itself.
I have received these invitations from lots of people I hardly know. And once I asked them WTF?, none of them had a clue that "they" were sending out these emails to me or anybody else.
I don't think anybody knowingly signed up to have sent out emails to everybody in their contact list. I certainly didn't know.
I have it; I re-created LinkedIn 2 months ago (I deleted it last June because it wasn't helpful then when trying to relocate and it's not helpful now that I'm looking for a 2nd job in current area to save) and I don't think it's helpful at all. I don't know what fields they are helpful for, but it's totally not helpful for writers, librarians, and administrative assistants. The jobs they recommend for me are all volunteer! I need a 2nd job that pays and something full time!
"I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn."
What is your opinion of this?
Every so often I get this request. I tend to ignore them. Okay, I always ignore them. I try to keep my internet world in control. I don't need my name out there everywhere.
The site is very annoying for that reason alone which is why I had to delete my page in 2013. People send you connections request who don't know you and don't even work in the same field. Looks like the site is sending those requests because I still get them and have not had a Linkedin profile in two years.
I like LinkedIn, but I don't use it very often. I welcome invitations to connect because it gives me a chance to get to know someone I wouldn't normally contact day-to-day. I think the information on the various companies is helpful too. I get notified when there are openings at certain firms I follow and I get to explore the backgrounds of the employees of firms I'm interested in as a way to tailor my own skills on what is relevant. Recruiters have contacted me with some great opportunities and I have helped others get jobs through LinkedIn. I think it's a great way to find a job, if you have great credentials. It's a site that gives you a chance to present yourself in the way you want to be perceived, to potential employers and people who could advance your career.
If you're a man who is single, I think it's a great way to meet attractive, professional, educated women too.
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Looks like the site is sending those requests because I still get them and have not had a Linkedin profile in two years.
