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LinkedIn just seems overwhelmingly sleezy to me. How do they keep getting away with this stuff?
by csmatt 13y ago
LinkedIn just seems overwhelmingly sleezy to me. How do they keep getting away with this stuff?
- cowboy_coder 13y agoHN is a huge LinkedIn fanboy site. Surprised to see this.
- tedunangst 13y agoPeople tell LinkedIn "Please, please, pretty please build something that lets me view LinkedIn contact info while reading email on my phone." LinkedIn builds it.
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- SideburnsOfDoom 13y ago> People tell LinkedIn "Please, please, pretty please build something that lets me view LinkedIn contact info while reading email on my phone." Did they? Did they really?
- krapp 13y agoTo be fair, he didn't say which people...
- tedunangst 13y agoNo. LinkedIn spent considerable effort building something that nobody wants and nobody will opt into.
- nilved 13y agoI think you're joking, but we both know this isn't the first time they've done that.
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- SideburnsOfDoom 13y ago> No. LinkedIn spent considerable effort building something that nobody wants That's pretty much what I thought, i.e "LinkedIn spent considerable effort building something that very few of their users want". Thanks for confirming that there's no evidence otherwise. It's more common than you may think, especially for companies where the user is not a paying customer and the feature benefits the company. Sure somebody wants this feature. Somebody who works for linkedin and isn't a security geek. And for companies with poor-decision-making skills or short-term thinking.
- stephp 13y agoRight? Are they purposely trying to come off like a Disney villain? Absolutely everything they do is ruthless and aggressive. If you sign up for an account now, they email everyone you know. It just happens; even if you try to avoid it. Then they ask for a second email address.. you know, in case the first.. goes inactive suddenly? People fall for that, thinking LinkedIn is legit enough to be trustworthy. I deleted my account forever ago, but I get emails constantly saying so-and-so wants to connect with me. After the first 3-5, I looked into it. Nope-- no one's trying to contact me through LinkedIn at all. Just LinkedIn doing its thing.
- tedunangst 13y agoyou know, in case the first.. goes inactive suddenly? Yes, exactly. In case you signed up using your work email, like practically everybody does, and then one day find yourself not working where you used to work.
- Zimahl 13y agoIn case you signed up using your work email, like practically everybody does 1) Why would anyone use a temporary email to sign up to a social service? 2) Why would anyone use their work email for a job networking social site knowing full well that work emails are not private?
- tedunangst 13y agoBecause your invitation came from a coworker who used, you guessed it, your work email.
- Angostura 13y agoThere are a lot of people who use their work e-mails with LinkedIn because LinkedIn provides a useful adjunct to their actual work. A company that I used to work for, for example had a link to each person's LinkedIn profile on their biography page. The testimonials they received on LinkedIn were worth rather more than the ones that might be put up ib the business' own site.
- chc 13y agoGetting away with what? Can you tell me what they should have done to offer the same end-user functionality in a way that would not seem "sleazy" to you?