It's called monetizing. Eventually all the free services do it.
No, it's called being viral. Monetizing is when you get spam from people you're not connected to (a.k.a. InMail)...
No, it's called being sleazy.
Hey LinkedIn – Nobody Wants This
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Re: Hey LinkedIn – Nobody Wants This
#32Go to this link to discover if Linkedin ripped all your contacts: http://www.linkedin.com/people/contacts?sortAction=lastName&...
PS: I saw this link in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6426733
Re: Hey LinkedIn – Nobody Wants This
#33I remember exactly when I accidentally hit invite button after I successfully linked my gmail account with LinkedIn. After I did this I noticed that the scrollbars were hidden by OS X and later I realized that I spammed every single person that I received email from with my linkedin invitation. I felt so ashamed by myself and even until today I receive messages such as : "you are now connected to Person X", who personally I even don't remember.
Shame for LinkedIn that they do their social linking in such a bad and confusing way. Cheers for the author.
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#34Everyone does this. By now, I consider it an industry "best practice" and no one should be surprised. Is it still reprehensible? Sure, but then again, every startup that has ever grown their user base has used some variation of this "growth hack".
I wish that I had the ability to downvote people because of comments like this. There is no justification for that kind of behavior -- and calling it a "best practice" speaks volumes about your lack of integrity.
I think the quotes around "best practices" served to convey a sense of mocking. The second paragraph is evidence of that.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wish that I had the ability to downvote people because of comments like this. There is no justification for that kind of behavior -- and calling it a "best practice" speaks volumes about your lack of integrity.
I think the quotes around "best practices" served to convey a sense of mocking. The second paragraph is evidence of that.
Where's the app that properly conveys snarkiness in text? Thanks Pandler for your clarification.
Re: Hey LinkedIn – Nobody Wants This
#36The CEO of a company I worked for did this by accident: Invited all of his contact. Let me tell you, all the underlings and vendors were so excited to get an invitation from the CEO. His linked in profile exploded. I was tasked with trying to uninvite the 500 or so people that hadn't accepted in the first few hours! I eventually told him it was no big deal. LinkedIn isn't very personal, it's mostly image.
That's kind of interesting. Why were they so excited to get his invite and why was he so worried about managing his connections? (Ie uninviting people.) Curious to understand the behavior.
All those people apparently felt some sort of personal connection by the act, it was a very strange phenomenon. He had not cleared out his contacts in a decade! He had "reached out" to many past vendors, former colleagues, etc. They all want to "reconnect" and were emailing, messaging, etc. It was literally (in the correct use of the word), taking up a lot of his time with all the influx of emails and calls.
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#37> its probably my favorite social network
I pretty much tuned out at this point. I don't believe it is (nor should it be) a social network. I have a couple connections that use LinkedIn like others use Facebook. I don't want my LinkedIn connections telling me they had oatmeal for breakfast. That is what Facebook is for.
Re: Hey LinkedIn – Nobody Wants This
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the quotes around "best practices" served to convey a sense of mocking. The second paragraph is evidence of that.
Where's the app that properly conveys snarkiness in text? Thanks Pandler for your clarification.
Huh, I didn't read any snarkiness in that... Sorry, then!