Twitter also does this:
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s74/sh/d88e4751-964e-464b-aef...
Hey LinkedIn – Nobody Wants This
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Re: Hey LinkedIn – Nobody Wants This
#12I don't even have to read this article to say that no, Linkedin is not better than this, whatever this is.
Yeah, I can't get the article to load, but my reaction was pretty much the same.
It's about their "Invite people to LinkedIn" scheme and how they make it very easy to spam everyone you've ever communicated with. Or in the case of addresses like iTunesConnect, everything you've ever communicated with.
Re: Hey LinkedIn – Nobody Wants This
#13Everyone does this. By now, I consider it an industry "best practice" and no one should be surprised.
Is it still reprehensible? Sure, but then again, every startup that has ever grown their user base has used some variation of this "growth hack".
Re: Hey LinkedIn – Nobody Wants This
#14I don't even have to read this article to say that no, Linkedin is not better than this, whatever this is.
The HN circlejerk in full swing.
Re: Hey LinkedIn – Nobody Wants This
#15Why give them access to your account at all?
I did this with Facebook eons ago and they just kept the data and it haunted me for years. No, I don't want to add people I removed from my address book years ago.
Re: Hey LinkedIn – Nobody Wants This
#16I have never had a LinkedIn and I just counted 213 LinkedIn messages in my gmail account (yes, I am horrible at deleting emails). Their email spamming has turned me off to ever trying LinkedIn.
Do people actually find LinkedIn useful anyway? Everyone I know has an account, but I have never actually met a person who has found a job through using the site.
Re: Hey LinkedIn – Nobody Wants This
#17I have never had a LinkedIn and I just counted 213 LinkedIn messages in my gmail account (yes, I am horrible at deleting emails). Their email spamming has turned me off to ever trying LinkedIn.
Do people actually find LinkedIn useful anyway? Everyone I know has an account, but I have never actually met a person who has found a job through using the site.
Re: Hey LinkedIn – Nobody Wants This
#18I don't even have to read this article to say that no, Linkedin is not better than this, whatever this is.
I remember my first day on the internet as well. Complaining about linkedin has become as passe as getting upset when paypal freeze your account.
Re: Hey LinkedIn – Nobody Wants This
#19The CEO of a company I worked for did this by accident: Invited all of his contact. Let me tell you, all the underlings and vendors were so excited to get an invitation from the CEO. His linked in profile exploded. I was tasked with trying to uninvite the 500 or so people that hadn't accepted in the first few hours! I eventually told him it was no big deal. LinkedIn isn't very personal, it's mostly image.
Re: Hey LinkedIn – Nobody Wants This
#20It's called monetizing.
Eventually all the free services do it.