LinkedIn is not using email contacts to find people who have an account already
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Re: LinkedIn is not using email contacts to find people who have an account already
#2Misrepresentation can be a very serious offence. I'd like to hear LinkedIn's argument for impersonating people who don't use the platform.
Re: LinkedIn is not using email contacts to find people who have an account already
#3Not exactly news that linkedin does this...
Re: LinkedIn is not using email contacts to find people who have an account already
#4I can see how this may confuse people who aren't tech savvy, but as a tech person, I immediately recognise this as a ghost profile. When you see five or six of these amongst the actual profiles, and all of them just so happen to be people from your email, possibly who you haven't spoken to in years, you can put 1 and 1 together and know it's a trick.
Re: LinkedIn is not using email contacts to find people who have an account already
#5Not exactly news that linkedin does this...
Yeah, it's been a while already, and it's seriously annoying to pretend that people are using the service when they don't. I made the mistake a couple of times when trying to connect with people who appeared in my list.
Re: LinkedIn is not using email contacts to find people who have an account already
#6Not exactly news that linkedin does this...
I tend to keep abreast of tech-related news and had not seen anything outlining this sort of behaviour. For me, the fact that they so blatantly suggest that people have a LinkedIn account when they don't is appalling.
As I noted in my post, I am not in fact that surprised though.
Re: LinkedIn is not using email contacts to find people who have an account already
#7I can see how this may confuse people who aren't tech savvy, but as a tech person, I immediately recognise this as a ghost profile. When you see five or six of these amongst the actual profiles, and all of them just so happen to be people from your email, possibly who you haven't spoken to in years, you can put 1 and 1 together and know it's a trick.
Literally a ghost profile, the person is dead.
LinkedIn must have zero empathy for what loss does to people to use such tactics that can cause distress.
Re: LinkedIn is not using email contacts to find people who have an account already
#8What is the lie here?
Re: LinkedIn is not using email contacts to find people who have an account already
#9I can see how this may confuse people who aren't tech savvy, but as a tech person, I immediately recognise this as a ghost profile. When you see five or six of these amongst the actual profiles, and all of them just so happen to be people from your email, possibly who you haven't spoken to in years, you can put 1 and 1 together and know it's a trick.
Literally a ghost profile, the person is dead. LinkedIn must have zero empathy for what loss does to people to use such tactics that can cause distress.
Maybe it's not common (at least while most developpers are not in their 80's) and they didn't think of it.
The idea that they are evil people is more appealing, though.
Re: LinkedIn is not using email contacts to find people who have an account already
#10They have gone too far. Disgusting.