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LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value

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Re: LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value

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It would probably be pretty trivial to set up a filter or two to automatically delete those emails. Or maybe just leave your account open (though it sounds like you would refuse to do this on principle). I never receive emails from Facebook. I think it's a bit extreme to cheer for hackers to take down a big company just because they send you a few emails. How much time has it really cost you, in total, to delete thei…

> I think it's a bit extreme to cheer for hackers to take down a big company just because they send you a few emails. It really just isn't the emails, it's rather that they're one of the biggest pioneers of dark patterns: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebooks-evil-interfa... I'm extremely conflicted about all of this. I want the open web to thrive, but I'm beginning to realize that in a free and open intern…

I've noticed a lot of user hostile behavior like this from all of the large public social companies (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, etc...)

It's really a shame but I think that when your business is built off of trying to monetize user engagement with ads and you're under the scrutiny of the public market it's only a matter of time before this starts to crop up. I imagine there are/were many people at all of these companies against this sort of thing but with enough employees and enough outside pressure to deliver growth I suspect it's nearly impossible to avoid (without an extremely explicit mandate from the top)

:(

Re: LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value

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Honestly I am feeling a bit of joy watching LinkedIn take a hit. Not because I think their product is terrible but because of the endless spam emails I keep receiving from them, despite how many times I click unsubscribe.

Am I the only one not getting LinkedIn email?

I have an account, turned off all email-based notifications, and stop by every half-year or so to see what's in my inbox. It's usually full of messages, but I never get any emails from them.

Am I just lucky? What's up?

Re: LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value

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That happens to me too. But you know who is a thousand times worse than Linkedin when it comes to these things? Facebook. At this point, I honest /just/ /don't/ /know/ how to stop getting emails from them. In my entire life I've only had a facebook account for a few hours (created one out of necessity a few years ago -- closed it after just a few hours of use at that time). And I still get emails. I've clicked unsubs…

Anything from a Facebook domain hitting my mail server is bounces them back to Facebook's abuse and postmaster addresses. I know categorically that it is abuse, because I am the sole user of my mail server and do not now and have never had a Facebook account, and have repeatedly asked them in various ways to stop spamming me. Useless, of course. But just because they ignore internet norms of decent behavior doesn't m…

That seems like it would make it harder for Facebook's abuse team to deal with actual abuse reports.

Re: LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value

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Startup CEOs are getting pretty young these days, has your niece been hitting you up for a seed round?

I'm thinking an App that is Uber for Lemonade Stands, people in the neighborhood just press the "I'm thirsty" button and one of her "mixologists" nearby makes a lemonade and brings it by. She doesn't make the lemonade or sell it, she is all about connecting thirsty people to industrious people who are putting their otherwise unused lemons to work.

Re: LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value

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Honestly I am feeling a bit of joy watching LinkedIn take a hit. Not because I think their product is terrible but because of the endless spam emails I keep receiving from them, despite how many times I click unsubscribe.

The emails are bad, but I also think their product is terrible.

Re: LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value

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Just curious - why did you give them your contacts? I've been on it for years and have never uploaded a single contact. I've just manually connected with people I know. Whenever a service asks for my contacts, I know it's because they want to spam them.

Many people are literally tricked into uploading their contacts. Example with screenshots.[1] The UI/UX practice is called "dark patterns". On a monthly basis, I get LinkedIn "invites" from friends who simply didn't understand LinkedIn's hostile and deceptive user interface. They think they're just importing their contacts to conveniently++ find existing profiles but in reality, they're unwittingly giving permission…

Nice link! I'm glad I haven't signed up yet. But then again, I don't use gmail either so importing the address book would be considerably more difficult.

I wonder if you can prevent them from stealing the address book if you install their Android app?

Re: LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value

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The US is currently adding jobs and adding jobs in tech, their issue is probably competition (LinkedIn is not the only game in town). Mobile revenue was 80% of Facebook's revenue in Q4 2015. Update: after looking at their revenues they might also have some currency troubles, they have far more international revenue than I would have guessed (~38%).

What are the other games, I'd be interested in checking out a (viable) LinkedIn competitor.

The only other one I know of is XING.

Re: LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value

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In Europe, xing is actually more popular than linkedin. So there is serious competition.

I think that's country specific. I'm in Denmark and I never heard of Xing.

I think Xing is more of a german thing (it's a german company).
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