I don't like how I still show up on linkedin to other people in spite of the fact that I deleted my account (to the best of anyone's ability) years ago.
LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network
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Re: LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network
#62I had an interesting experience last year when I was working in a co-working space. I noticed that LinkedIn started suggesting to me the other people who were working in the same space. I had no verbal or virtual contact with these people, other than basic office small talk, but I never knew their name and they never knew mine. I mentioned it to them, and they all claimed they hadn't looked me up on LinkedIn, and tha…
I'm pretty sure Facebook does this too. I moved cities and got a new job without using my network of friends to get it and I don't keep any [accurate] personal contact data on Facebook. Suddenly my boss and coworkers are suggested people I may know despite the only thing we shared in common w.r.t. Facebook is a set of IP addresses.
I have multiple Facebook accounts (I created them for testing a long time ago). I use only 1 of them. But it's funny to see Facebook claiming that Account #2 sent a "friend request" to Account #3. And offering up the other accounts as "people you may know". The only commonality is the IP.
Re: LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network
#63Creepy experience from this week. We have hired someone for daycare, I only have exchanged a few mail with that person. And now, her husband is in "people I know". I don't have shared my mail credentials with Linkedin, but I assume she has, and since we are both in her contact list, Linkedin assumed we know each other. It is somewhat correct but creepy nonetheless. I am not going to add him but from my point of view,…
> I am not going to add him but from my point of view, proposing you to add people you only know remotely diminishes the usefulness of the network. The people I know who are the best at networking (I don't count myself in that class) are able to extract a remarkable amount of value out of contacts they only barely know or just have an indirect connection to. It might not be in your nature (or mine for that matter) to…
Except the rest of us all hate those people. I guess maybe you're right that it works for them, but at the cost of real human relationships.
Re: LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network
#64I remember reading an article a while back (can't find it at the moment) that LinkedIn imported iPhone users contact lists without consent similar to what Path did but much earlier.
Re: LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network
#65It may be the creepiest social network, but it is also the only network where I can be endorsed for skills I've forgotten I had by people I've forgotten I worked with.
I've always found the endorsements pretty pointless, especially since many people seem to 'trade' endorsements (I endorse you if you endorse me). So I don't accept endorsements and I also will not endorse anyone.
Re: LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network
#66Does anyone else think that LinkedIn should spend less time being creepy and more time fixing it's basic features? Half the time the site takes forever to load, the filtering features rarely work and the search is so bad. I don't know how a site that has been around for this long still has so many issues with basic features.
Re: LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network
#67Creepy experience from this week. We have hired someone for daycare, I only have exchanged a few mail with that person. And now, her husband is in "people I know". I don't have shared my mail credentials with Linkedin, but I assume she has, and since we are both in her contact list, Linkedin assumed we know each other. It is somewhat correct but creepy nonetheless. I am not going to add him but from my point of view,…
I'm always a bit surprised that people find this sort of thing to be creepy. It's done automatically at a large scale by an algorithm - I would bet that there isn't a single human being at LinkedIn who knows that this connection was made (or is even aware of your existence [sorry]). Having said that, I completely agree that "proposing you to add people you only know remotely diminishes the usefulness of the network".…
I think people just have different thresholds for what they consider invasive. I imagine even you have one somewhere.
How would you feel if when you logged into Facebook, it told you:
* What your last meal consisted of?
* When your last bowel movement was?
* When you last masturbated?
These are all pieces of information that could theoretically be algorithmically obtained (without a single human "knowing") from internet-of-things / quantified-self / fitness-tracking / smart-watch devices. Which of the above would seem "creepy" to you?
Re: LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm pretty sure Facebook does this too. I moved cities and got a new job without using my network of friends to get it and I don't keep any [accurate] personal contact data on Facebook. Suddenly my boss and coworkers are suggested people I may know despite the only thing we shared in common w.r.t. Facebook is a set of IP addresses.
I have multiple Facebook accounts (I created them for testing a long time ago). I use only 1 of them. But it's funny to see Facebook claiming that Account #2 sent a "friend request" to Account #3. And offering up the other accounts as "people you may know". The only commonality is the IP.
What do you think all the "data scientists" hired by these companies do? IP addresses (or IPGeo) is one strong signal that goes into the "people who you might know" model. One can argue how effective these models are, but it's quite likely that they are found to be useful, for some metrics that the companies care about, like user growth, revenue or whatever. It's also likely that negative sentiment on a forum like HN is not part of the metrics these models are optimized for.
Re: LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network
#69I wish that LinkedIn had the ability to disable your profile. I'm not looking for a job, I'm not looking to connect with recruiters, and I really don't like the ability for one of my exes to publicly see where I'm working so that she can continue to harass me -- on the other hand, My LinkedIn Profile is around eight or nine years old at this point in time, and I've amassed a fair amount of connections, that I'd like…
You don't pay for LinkedIn.
You are the product, and allowing you to hide your profile makes you a less valuable product to the customers (recruiters). Until paying customers start complaining that their response rates are too low because there are too many inactive/unresponsive profiles, this won't happen.
Re: LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network
#70The only thing I find linkedin useful for these days is to keep an eye on open positions related to my field. Besides, I dont know anyone that uses LinkedIn and actually likes it. Lets face it, its completely horrible for many reasons: - Recruiters sending unsolicited connections requests and spam, - Lame articles on productivity ( "5 reasons you should do X", or "5 things billionaires do when Y" bla bla.) - Who view…
In addition to the recruiter spam, I found that they will simply add you so they have access to your connections as well.