Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jul 1 01:30:00 UTC 2011


On 06/30/2011 03:08 PM, Patton Echols wrote:
...
> If you wre not aware, LinkedIn is like facebook for professionals.  
> Unfortunately, the website is not clear when it asks if you want to find 
> other colleagues.  It asks for your email address and password (Yes, I 
> know!) and gives the impression it is going to search it's database for 
> anyone in your address book.  While it may do that, it also spams 
> everyone in your name.
> 
> You should not tar and feather the users becase they were mislead by the 
> site designers.

Really? If I sign up for blowup googoo dolls and it mines my email
addresses & sends invites to all in my email address book/lists I
shouldn't be responsible?

Perhaps we should start a thread/blog on safe browsing...






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