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It 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.
Other users who have imported their contact list is probably what causes them to show up on "People You May Know". I have noticed that people who I'm suggested to add are ones that I have only communicated with through email.
This is the most obvious explanation. It compares your email to the list of contacts that other people have imported. If you were on their list, you may 'know' them. Pretty simple.
> I don’t currently and haven’t previously used the Imported Contact feature But perhaps the others did? If 'Steve Jacobs' imported his contacts and you exchanged emails with him, LinkedIn apparently becomes aware of that relationship. In fact: > Tami has a total of 5 connections, lives in Seattle, no public company or title listed, but we just happened to exchange a few emails a couple days prior regarding some ques…
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I 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 thought that was actually pretty scary - normally, if you're a service employee at a business, the most a customer is going to learn about you is the name printed on your name tag. In this case, after buying my coffee and going home, I was presented with the last names of these employees and whatever other information was publicly visible in their LinkedIn profiles.
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> 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.