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Re: Stop Using LinkedIn

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Post by MagicWishMonkey »

tbrownaw wrote: post #78
MagicWishMonkey wrote: post #50

LinkedIn screwed me over real good a few weeks back. They sent me an email saying "There are 108 people you might want to connect with", so I click on view all and it shows a giant list of people with checkmarks by their names. Nice. I uncheck all of them, and scroll through checking a few folks who I want to network with (5 people in total). Click next, it takes me to a screen showing the 5 people and the banner cle…

Why the holy flying fuck would anyone give someone they met on the Internet the ability to impersonate them? That's like online safety 101, right after not giving out your home address and vacation schedule. Especially when that someone already has a bad reputation like linkedin has.

I had no idea that I granted them permission to send email through my account, I thought I had restricted them to the address book. I made a mistake.

Re: Stop Using LinkedIn

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Post by nostromo »

hashmymustache wrote: post #80
lelf wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> revoked LinkedIn's access to my gmail account I honestly don't know what people are thinking while enabling that . No, Seriously?

I don't understand how Gmail allows it. I assume they've gotten enough complaints about it being abused to prohibit or strictly limit access with at least warnings before actions can be taken.

Because the "old way" was worse.

http://blog.codinghorror.com/please-give-us-your-email-passw...

I believe Facebook was the first site to ask users for their email passwords -- and to great effect, at least on their growth metrics.

Re: Stop Using LinkedIn

#85

Post by sagivo »

Aloisius wrote: post #63
xienze wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually found that even if you pay there's STILL a lot of "people who've viewed you" that you can't actually view!

I'm actually partially responsible for this. I actually designed that product at LinkedIn. There are some people who need to stay anonymous for various reasons including lawyers, M&A people, etc. The setting for how you show up in other people's who viewed your profile is controlled by the individual user. It is a privacy thing. The messaging when upgrading used to be much more clear - you would get to see more peopl…

if you can't tell me who, don't tell me at all! it's a waste of time, effort and bad experience.

Re: Stop Using LinkedIn

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Post by karamazov »

basseq wrote: post #72
MagicWishMonkey wrote: post #50

LinkedIn screwed me over real good a few weeks back. They sent me an email saying "There are 108 people you might want to connect with", so I click on view all and it shows a giant list of people with checkmarks by their names. Nice. I uncheck all of them, and scroll through checking a few folks who I want to network with (5 people in total). Click next, it takes me to a screen showing the 5 people and the banner cle…

I don't think I ever granted them access, but somehow they got a list of random email contacts. So every once in a while I'll get an email that says, "Connect with Joe?" Looks like a normal inbound connection request, but it's actually a trap to get YOU to initiate a request. Awkward for contacts you might accept a request from, but not reach out to.

I suspect the other party gave LinkedIn their address book, and they're trying to maximize the odds of a connection.

Re: Stop Using LinkedIn

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Post by mindcrime »

dkarapetyan wrote: post #58
mindcrime wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LinkedIn is useful for more than just "showcasing your skillset" though.

How is that? The only thing I've ever gotten from them is a shitty user experience, overabundance of dark UI patterns, and recruiter spam.

Oh I don't know... how about keeping track of former co-workers, people you meet at networking events, and other professional connections? How about finding useful interesting industry or topic specific news and discussion via groups? Or if you are job-hunting, for finding a path to somebody who works at the company you're targeting, so you can try to get an inside testimonial? Or getting a warm intro when trying to contact VC's or Angel investors? Or perhaps for looking up an individual before meeting them in a professional setting, so you have some background on their experience / interests / etc? I mean, really, there are a million ways that LinkedIn is useful. The fact that they suck in so many other ways is pretty much orthogonal.

Yeah, I think we'd all prefer a site like LinkedIn that somehow manages to avoid "recruiter spam" and all that, but for me personally, I can tolerate a little recruiter spam... and hell, every once in a while I get something like that, that is actually interesting enough to pursue.

Re: Stop Using LinkedIn

#88

Post by _Adam »

nostromo wrote: post #17

This article is more informative about why they are upset with LinkedIn: http://www.wired.com/2015/02/linkedin-api/ tl;dr: LinkedIn is pulling a Twitter. I can't say I'm surprised. It's a common pattern: Step 1: plant a nice open garden that attracts lots of people. Step 2: put wall around garden.

Hmm. Interesting if this decision was ultimately responsible for Twitter's declining traffic. Perhaps the same will happen to Linkedin? Of course even if it does we won't have evidence of causation, but it's something to keep in the back of our minds.

Re: Stop Using LinkedIn

#89

Post by getdavidhiggins »

If your digital life is portable from the outset, then smear-campaign sites like this don't need to happen. LinkedIN data silos are purely symptomatic of people choosing services where the data is not portable in the first place.

Choose services where you can export, and migrate data before the fact, not after it.

Also see

* http://indiewebify.me/

* http://dataportability.org/

Checkout the #ownyourdata initiative also.

Re: Stop Using LinkedIn

#90

Post by jacquesc »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #70

I hate LinkedIn, and wish it was not a de facto requirement for getting a job in certain industries/areas. To make it not so, _users_ need to stop using Linked In. This OP is very developer-focused in it's audience, it will not be clear to the non-developer user (or even to many developers) what they are talking about at all, or why it matters. It is written assuming you already know what they're talking about and al…

Developers are a huge resource for LinkedIn. The only reason they can sell their spammy products to recruiters is because those recruiters count on LinkedIn having quality people on their network to send it to.

If everyone who didn't need a LinkedIn profile to get a job shut off their profile, LinkedIn's revenue would collapse quickly.

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