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There are people I haven't talked to in a while. Maybe I should invite them to LinkedIn.
Well, that, or I could just send them an e-mail, but that doesn't sound nearly as interesting.
Rule 1: Make sure your linkedin password is not the same as your gmail password. I've tried to login to linkedin a couple of times in too much of a hurry, thinking I was logging into linkedin from some request and not reading the actual page. Luckily my passwords are different. I'd have to say I'm not sure how someone who is tech savvy can knowingly give a company their gmail account info and expect nothing bad to ha…
This is the only way to keep LinkedIn out of your inbox short of using GMail filters. My highest-voted comment ever (27 upvotes) from a few months back: "Linked-In has the spammiest email protocol out of any service I have ever used. Even after signing-in there is no one-click-to-unsubscribe button (they split it into about 12 scattered categories), and they create new categories periodically and opt you in to them.…
Or just set your phone to not vibrate or beep from unimportant emails. Do you _really_ want to be notified dozens of times a day when you get non-urgent or unimportant emails?
YES. This totally happened to me. Now I'm connected to every apartment manager, recruiter, and random person I've ever emailed -__-
LinkedIn has essentially given recruiters another possible avenue for connecting with people; by enabling their random, direct emails to users to turn into leads.
I thought I was being kind in replying and saying "no thanks" only to suddenly start getting connected with people whom with that was my only interaction.