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LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network

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Re: LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network

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Post by shaggyfrog »

Caerus wrote: post #11

Facebook does the same thing and it's just as creepy. I closed my "real" account around 2011. A few months back I created a new blank account because I needed access to a couple organization's pages. The only information on that account is my name (a fairly common one) and an email address which is different from the one on my original account. It's possible they have some geographic info linking the two accounts as…

Are you logging in from the same locality, perhaps the same building, perhaps from the same computer and perhaps still using the same IP as you had when you closed your account in 2011? It doesn't take a lot of work to come up with some new-user-matching-old-user algorithm with a decent success rate using geographic/IP data.

Re: LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network

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Post by mindcrime »

dclowd9901 wrote: post #53
mindcrime wrote: post #43

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I'm not sure how much one should read into that. I mean, ok, there are probably some guys (and some women, as far as that goes) who click on profiles solely due to the attractiveness of the picture. BUT... there are other reasonable reasons to explain a picture like shown above. For example, note that all of the people listed appear to work in related domains (marketing, event management of some sort). Given the natu…

Further, there tends to be a high correlation between someone's success in a field such as marketing and recruiting, and their appearance. I don't want to generalize too much, but most recruiter emails I get are from very attractive women, and I have a feeling that's not unintentional, as gross as that sounds.

Yeah. I guess it says something about society, human nature, etc., but I think you're right. Heck, I can't even remember ever meeting a female recruiter who wasn't at least moderately attractive. And most of the women I've met, who were recruiters, are what I'd describe as flat-out "gorgeous" or "beautiful".

So... are attractive women particularly drawn to recruiting for some reason, or is physical appearance a hiring criteria for recruiting companies? Both? Neither?

Re: LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network

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Post by colkassad »

jere wrote: post #29
colkassad wrote: post #24

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A social network I used in eastern Europe would allow you to see people who viewed your profile if you paid a small transaction via SMS/phonebill. The functionality would last a month, I think. I thought that this was genius from a "how do we make money" standpoint, and all of my friends used it. Could you imagine the revenue possibilities for Facebook?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but there seems to be an element of that already in LinkedIn. http://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/42 >You'll see profile stats about who's viewed your profile if: >You have a premium account. This will also give you access to Profile Stats Pro. >You have a free basic account and have set your privacy settings to show your name and headline. In other words, as long as you shell…

Yeah, didn't know that. Actually, what I especially found interesting was the dead-easy way of paying via your phone bill. I don't see that much here in the States.

Re: LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network

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Post by jaredmcateer »

Lewton wrote: post #60

I don't have a linkedin account. Should I? Does it provide value I can't find elsewhere?

I get far more quality recruiters contacting me that I ever have from sites like Monster, most of the ones on LinkedIn know the difference between Java and JavaScript and they don't take the one line in my history 5 years ago that said I helped build a printer script in C# that was used by a clients SAP system to mean I have 15 years SAP experience.

Re: LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network

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Post by Caerus »

shaggyfrog wrote: post #63
Caerus wrote: post #11

Facebook does the same thing and it's just as creepy. I closed my "real" account around 2011. A few months back I created a new blank account because I needed access to a couple organization's pages. The only information on that account is my name (a fairly common one) and an email address which is different from the one on my original account. It's possible they have some geographic info linking the two accounts as…

Are you logging in from the same locality, perhaps the same building, perhaps from the same computer and perhaps still using the same IP as you had when you closed your account in 2011? It doesn't take a lot of work to come up with some new-user-matching-old-user algorithm with a decent success rate using geographic/IP data.

It would have been the same major metro area, but moved about 8 miles in the middle. Same ISP, different IP. Same computer, but there's no way I didn't completely clear the browser a few times in those 2 years.

Re: LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network

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Post by onemorepassword »

Caerus wrote: post #11

Facebook does the same thing and it's just as creepy. I closed my "real" account around 2011. A few months back I created a new blank account because I needed access to a couple organization's pages. The only information on that account is my name (a fairly common one) and an email address which is different from the one on my original account. It's possible they have some geographic info linking the two accounts as…

My first Google+ account suggested all kinds of information about me and my social graph that was clearly a two year old info dump from LinkedIn.
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