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Re: LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network

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Post by LoSboccacc » Fri, Apr 03, 2015, 8:15 PM UTC

AdamFernandez wrote: post #47

zatkin wrote: post #28

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.

Simpler explanation: Random services where people signed allowing 'share data with third parties'. That's not random wording, those precisely are this type of metadata sharing agreement where money exchanges hand buying people information.

Re: LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network

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Post by proksoup » Fri, Apr 03, 2015, 9:58 PM UTC

jamiesonbecker wrote: post #88

proksoup wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry for ignorance, I don't know what received headers are. Would the same apply if the email you sent is "forwarded" automatically to another email address that you are unaware of? Or by received headers you meant you get a reply back from the celebrity?

> Or by received headers you meant you get a reply back from the celebrity? Yes, I received several replies back but that was the sole extent of our contact on the Internet or real life. Received headers show the previous mail servers that the email passed through through on its way to you. There can be many; each server adds another. See https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt § 3.6.7, "Trace fields" and Appendix A.4 f…

Oh ...

My money is that they (the celebrity) viewed you on linkedin, and that is the data linkedin used to make the connection.

That's certainly what I do before replying to strangers, google them and look at things.

Re: LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network

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Post by jamiesonbecker » Fri, Apr 03, 2015, 10:56 PM UTC

proksoup wrote: post #92

jamiesonbecker wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Or by received headers you meant you get a reply back from the celebrity? Yes, I received several replies back but that was the sole extent of our contact on the Internet or real life. Received headers show the previous mail servers that the email passed through through on its way to you. There can be many; each server adds another. See https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt § 3.6.7, "Trace fields" and Appendix A.4 f…

Oh ... My money is that they (the celebrity) viewed you on linkedin, and that is the data linkedin used to make the connection. That's certainly what I do before replying to strangers, google them and look at things.

Good thought! That's quite possible, and he may not have shown up in my "These people viewed your profile" list for various reasons.