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Re: Creepy visitor tracking using Linkedin

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Post by dkarapetyan »

peteretep wrote: post #8
dkarapetyan wrote: post #3

If you don't have a linkedin account I highly recommend the experience of setting one up. It is horrible. You are upsold at every step of the process. Reminded at every step that you should import your contacts and just forced to use horrible defaults every step of the way. After you have an account you'd think the sane defaults would be to not spam you with every little thing that happens on the site. Nope, you manu…

> I don't know about you but if there was some other > network for professionals to showcase profiles I would > jump on that immediately XING?

Neat. Why is it limited to Germany?

Re: Creepy visitor tracking using Linkedin

#13

Post by grimman »

ExpiredLink wrote: post #12

> So a little advice - if you prefer privacy don't forget to sign out of your Linkedin account before browsing the Web. ... and, of course, also sign out of Google and any other online service you are logged in!

It's usually around this time I plug Self Destructing Cookies (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destruct... ); it simply nukes any cookies that aren't whitelisted.

Edit: For Firefox

Re: Creepy visitor tracking using Linkedin

#14

Post by weavie »

With LinkedIn being as bad as people say, why do people sign up to it?

Is there really no alternative? What is it that makes it compulsory to use?

I have a very out of date profile, but rarely use it. For some reason I don't seem to get spammed. I don't see any use for it, so I don't visit.

Re: Creepy visitor tracking using Linkedin

#15

Post by seren »

weavie wrote: post #14

With LinkedIn being as bad as people say, why do people sign up to it? Is there really no alternative? What is it that makes it compulsory to use? I have a very out of date profile, but rarely use it. For some reason I don't seem to get spammed. I don't see any use for it, so I don't visit.

Because of the network effect. It is a lazy way to keep up a list of contacts you have worked with, that will automatically update itself when people move. I don't really plan to contact everyone in the future, but I sometimes look up what people are up to. It is good way to discover companies in your area of expertise.

Re: Creepy visitor tracking using Linkedin

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Post by dkarapetyan »

weavie wrote: post #14

With LinkedIn being as bad as people say, why do people sign up to it? Is there really no alternative? What is it that makes it compulsory to use? I have a very out of date profile, but rarely use it. For some reason I don't seem to get spammed. I don't see any use for it, so I don't visit.

It is completely useless in the sense that you can do the same thing with a simple blog and json file for your resume. The reason people use it is because it is an extremely simple way to showcase a professional profile in a place where every recruiter and their grandma knows is full of professional profiles.

It would be very easy to build an alternative. The hard part would be amassing the critical mass of recruiters. For a while Forrst was on the right track but it no longer exists.

Re: Creepy visitor tracking using Linkedin

#17

Post by click170 »

dkarapetyan wrote: post #3

If you don't have a linkedin account I highly recommend the experience of setting one up. It is horrible. You are upsold at every step of the process. Reminded at every step that you should import your contacts and just forced to use horrible defaults every step of the way. After you have an account you'd think the sane defaults would be to not spam you with every little thing that happens on the site. Nope, you manu…

I agree with everything except for actually advising people to sign up.

I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemies. Or the friends of my enemies.

Re: Creepy visitor tracking using Linkedin

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Post by weavie »

dkarapetyan wrote: post #16
weavie wrote: post #14

With LinkedIn being as bad as people say, why do people sign up to it? Is there really no alternative? What is it that makes it compulsory to use? I have a very out of date profile, but rarely use it. For some reason I don't seem to get spammed. I don't see any use for it, so I don't visit.

It is completely useless in the sense that you can do the same thing with a simple blog and json file for your resume. The reason people use it is because it is an extremely simple way to showcase a professional profile in a place where every recruiter and their grandma knows is full of professional profiles. It would be very easy to build an alternative. The hard part would be amassing the critical mass of recruiter…

Interesting. So do people get head hunted on Linked In? I always ignore any requests from recruiters. Maybe I should take my profile more seriously?

Re: Creepy visitor tracking using Linkedin

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Post by dkarapetyan »

weavie wrote: post #18
dkarapetyan wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is completely useless in the sense that you can do the same thing with a simple blog and json file for your resume. The reason people use it is because it is an extremely simple way to showcase a professional profile in a place where every recruiter and their grandma knows is full of professional profiles. It would be very easy to build an alternative. The hard part would be amassing the critical mass of recruiter…

Interesting. So do people get head hunted on Linked In? I always ignore any requests from recruiters. Maybe I should take my profile more seriously?

Yup, all the time.

Re: Creepy visitor tracking using Linkedin

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Post by Mithaldu »

dkarapetyan wrote: post #11
peteretep wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don't know about you but if there was some other > network for professionals to showcase profiles I would > jump on that immediately XING?

Neat. Why is it limited to Germany?

Full disclosure: I'm a german web developer.

Xing is made by a Perl company in Germany, specifically Hamburg. Having had some experience with other web-related companies, most german software is written with german content first, and little thought spent on localization, since serving an audience outside of germany is risky in that it means a lot of the company (support, etc.) has to be duplicated first, and it might end up having little draw. On the flipside, most Perl web frameworks are build with only one language in mind, English. Adding localization is extremely easy if you start out with it in mind, and i've actually been working on tools to ease that process, but after the fact it's a massive investment.

Due to all these factors the cost is simply too high for most german companies to even try.

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