There's only three types of folks that contact me on LinkedIn: bots, recruiters and prostitutes.
Correction, that's only two types...
LinkedIn is a Virus
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#52Am I the only one who read that and thought "perhaps you should have paid attention to what you were doing?" I know it sounds dickish, but seriously, why not own up to the fact that not every user interface is tailored to you, and that sometimes you are fallible?
I wish I took screenshots, but honestly my memory is I only saw six invites to review and in tiny 10px text below the "connect now" button was a thing saying (and also 1,132 more).
For what it's worth, a designer that works on this feature tweeted an apology and said they should add a warning, as it was way more common than intended.
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#53YES. This totally happened to me. Now I'm connected to every apartment manager, recruiter, and random person I've ever emailed -__-
Same here, unfortunately :(
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#54I had some business done through LinkedIN
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#55There is surprise when an address book with over 1000 entries is voluntarily connected to a commercial service designed to link people together? Surprise when closing a browser tab does not stop the request from running at LinkedIn? Calling it a virus is disingenuous at best. Edit: ... or a way to get page views.
I think people have a right to expect "find contacts in your address book" not to mean "indiscriminately spam contacts in your address book", especially from a service marketing itself as being a professional network and whose user guidelines expressly forbid you from connecting with people you do not know . Its UI explicitly violates the guidelines it expects users to follow by defaulting to inviting people -thousan…
Valid points, but they don't support the unnecessary flame bait in title. A virus is something completely different from an inconsistent UI.
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#56I wonder how many of the 1,138 accepted the request?
For whatever it's worth, I was one of the 1,138 – but, of course had no clue that I was x of N requests at the time rather than 1 of 1 or 2... but it seemed odd.
I've been on Metafilter for about a decade and I've interacted with Matt enough to know who he is – but also little enough to be completely surprised by the request.
I accepted it and then followed it up a shortly after with a note asking if we'd interacted more than I was aware of or if there was some other story to the request. It always seems better to be receptive but questioning to me – who knows what the story is behind all sorts of events in life..
Anyway, Matt was kind enough to respond and explain what happened. I thanked him and removed the connection at that point – I try only to keep connections with people I really interact with (or have interacted with) enough to want at least recall, but preferably sit down with and have coffee/beer/dinner, etc. if we were to cross paths.
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#57There is surprise when an address book with over 1000 entries is voluntarily connected to a commercial service designed to link people together? Surprise when closing a browser tab does not stop the request from running at LinkedIn? Calling it a virus is disingenuous at best. Edit: ... or a way to get page views.
This, wait... no, sorry, not this. Joking aside; the first button is one that deselects all contacts and they mention the numbers of connections to be created right in the top. Here it is: http://i.imgur.com/3qiT140.jpg I do hate LinkedIn but for very different reasons, like pretending is a safety measure to not connect with strangers and then charging you for a premium service for direct-emailing anyone you want.
Is "Add connections" the final step?
Granted it does allow you to deselect contacts and does (discreetly) indicate the interface is obscuring ~100 people it's defaulting sending invites to when you go to the next step, but you can understand why Joe VP might not expect clicking the blue button to send invitations to the mistress, disgruntled former employee and rival contractors who are hidden away somewhere near the bottom of the list.
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#58Am I the only one who read that and thought "perhaps you should have paid attention to what you were doing?" I know it sounds dickish, but seriously, why not own up to the fact that not every user interface is tailored to you, and that sometimes you are fallible?
Linkedin is very motivated to design their interface in such a way to ensure that they collect as many members and connections as possible. In other words, I believe they specifically design their interface so as to make it more likely that this mistake will be made.
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#59Here is an example of another LinkedIn Virus (or may Crunchbase-linkedin virus), that I experienced the other day and got really pissed.
1. Go to this page: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/facebook
2. Click on the "In" Widget
3. It says X connections work at Facebook. with "X connections" hyperlinked. There is another link below that says "Follow Facebook"
4. Now you'd think that clicking on "X connections" will show you the connections.
Try it....
5. It actually makes you follow the company.
Now, its not bad to follow Facebook but the other day I was checking out a competitor company and realized it made me follow the company and NO WAY To unfollow from anywhere.
So SCREW you LinkedIn Virus!!
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#60I hate that LinkedIn tricks you into endorsing others and accepting endorsements. It was embarrassing to get endorsed for my expertise on Excel from people I barely knew.