Ugh definitely. The awful thing is that they harvest your email from someone's address book and then bombard you with "people you may know" on your actual legitimate Linkedin account(tied into that email). LinkedIn is a ghetto of recruiters looking for no benefit contract employees("Oh we see you are an EXTREME CUTTING EDGE WEB2.0 NINJA, would you like to take a $50k contract job?"). Does this work on anyone? I can't…
I've always been puzzled by people who hate on recruiters contacting them through LinkedIn. If you dislike it so much, why don't you delete your LinkedIn profile? It's obviously there to facilitate exactly this kind of behaviour, so I don't see why there's any issue around it. To the contrary, I see these kinds of complaints as being a common form of humblebragging in the developer community. It comes across as: 'Gos…
Re: LinkedIn Ordered to Face Customer E-Mail Contacts Lawsuit
#61Linked seems to be completely useless both for the jobless and for those with jobs. As an unemployed person I hope you can understand why I both don't delete my account and hate the spam.