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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

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Post by ajays »

Yesterday I logged in to LI after many months. Now, I've been around long enough to know not to give access to my GMail to anyone; so I've never done that. I also haven't installed the LI app on my iPhone.

And yet, among the "people you may know", LI had a few email addresses that I am sure don't have LI accounts, and would never have them.

So how did LI get those addresses? I was logged in to my GMail account in another tab; could it be some CSRF or such bug? I found it very creepy.

Re: LinkedIn is not using email contacts to find people who have an account already

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Post by nitrogen »

simoncion wrote: post #164
pscsbs wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Googlers like to think that G+ is one of the biggest social networks. The reason the reported numbers are so high is because now YouTube users have to integrate with G+ and all sorts of Google products funnel users in. These users do one thing, and never use the service again.

Who, other than VCs, actually care about how many folks use a given social network? As long as the people you care to read, and some smattering of other interesting people are on the network, total size doesn't matter. Metafilter is quite successful, but also very, very small.

Metric-motivated marketing managers, maybe?

Re: LinkedIn is not using email contacts to find people who have an account already

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Post by rjf90 »

abitsios wrote: post #84
rjf90 wrote: post #66

This is deceptive at best. I've been a fan of LinkedIn as a company until now.

Really? That's something I haven't heard of from a technical person in a very long while (if ever). LinkedIn's public image from the last 2 years: * 2012 hack. 6.5M unsalted SHA1 password hashes leaked [1] * 2013 Acquires Pulse, forces existing users to create a LinkedIn account. Users are pissed [2] * 2013 LinkedIn Intro. In case you missed it, it was an iOS app that changed your mail settings to proxy your incoming…

When I sign up for a website, I do not give them information that I'm not comfortable being public. if you don't like it, don't use it.

I'm a fan of LinkedIn replacing the Rolodex. LinkedIn makes networking a whole lot easier. Maybe all your "technical" friends don't need to network, but I do.

Re: LinkedIn is not using email contacts to find people who have an account already

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Post by etfb »

hahainternet wrote: post #74
etfb wrote: post #18

I know I'm a bitch for laughing that an article about Linked In inflating its usage figures is posted on Google+.

Surely the fact it's posted from there indicates that the whole "its a ghost town, they're just lying" meme might be obviously false?

Remember that meme that was going around about social media and donuts? Twitter: I am eating a #donut ... Instagram: Here's a heavily post-processed picture of the donut I just ate ... Facebook: I Like donuts! ... Google+: I am a Google employee who likes donuts!

It's cruel and exaggerated, but like most successful (?) jokes it contains just enough truth.

Re: LinkedIn is not using email contacts to find people who have an account already

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Post by tripzilch »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #128
cma wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does "active" Google+ users include people who are logged in and have plus-related stuff-they-don't-care-about in their standard google header? Or people who just reciprocate circle-adds but don't engage whatsoever?

Or even just people who click the bell when it's lit up red to make the notification go away.

Shit I do all those things, I don't even know why...
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