On 10/25/2013 7:26 AM, Josh Smift wrote:
My employer just sent around a link to a story about LinkedIn's new service, http://www.bishopfox.com/blog/2013/10/linkedin-intro/ -- anyone know anything that contradicts any of this? If not, it's pretty scary.
After the special moments I had with Linked In the last time I logged in, this may just be the proverbial straw. When I logged into LinkedIn on Wednesday (which I do perhaps once a month), I decided to go through my Contacts, partially to see what special surprises were in the "new and improved" interface. First, if you choose Alphabetic, it does it by first name. On what planet is that professional? But that wasn't the worst. I noted that someone who'd sent me a job offer (even though my profile is pretty explicit about being mostly retired) was now a Contact. Uh, no thanks? I deleted him, and started looking at each one. Several that I'd deleted over time were added back in, but that wasn't the worst. I was horribly jolted to see that a friend who'd passed away in 2011 was now a contact again. LinkedIn makes it very hard to remove those that have died, unless a family member still has the account passwords and access. Of the four friends I've lost over the years that had accounts, two were added back in. This morning, when I logged in, I'd gone from 156 contacts to 196. I'm carefully going through them again, deleting those that don't really belong, but honestly, what are they thinking? Why do I have an account again? -- Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here, we might as well dance. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
