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> What you view on linkedin goes to fb and vice versa. That's completely unfounded speculation, and I'd love to see any citation for it. I'm inherently skepti

> What you view on linkedin goes to fb and vice versa. That's completely unfounded speculation, and I'd love to see any citation for it. I'm inherently skeptical because for these companies their most important asset is their data. The idea that they would share that data willy-nilly with third parties makes no business sense.

LoSboccacc 11y ago
it is indeed speculation, but at least anecdotal, not totally unfunded http://www.interactually.com/linkedin-creepiest-social-network/ http://www.interactually.com/linkedin-creepiest-social-netwo... http://imonlinkedinnowwhat.com/2009/09/14/linkedin-people-you-may-know-privacy-contrversy/ http://imonlinkedinnowwhat.com/2009/09/14/linkedin-people-yo... there are quite a few instances of weird guess about the people you might know suggestions of course the actual source is kept as one of their best secrets.
- morgante 11y ago
  Neither of those links you shared provided any evidence whatsoever for LinkedIn and Facebook having a secret bidirectional data sharing relationship. The far more intelligent explanation is that suggestions are, as LinkedIn repeatedly emphasizes, based on imported contacts. Note that even if you don't import contacts, the other person might have. Try using Occam's razor before jumping to unprofitable conspiracy theories. (Again, why on earth do you think Facebook would voluntarily share data with Facebook?)
  - TeMPOraL 11y ago
    > Again, why on earth do you think Facebook would voluntarily share data with Facebook? Because why not? Facebook isn't really competing with LinkedIn right now - the latter doesn't try to enter private life, and the former doesn't really touch work life much. Both could benefit from sharing data with each other - from better recommendations to creation of shadow profiles. I don't see how this is an unreasonable theory.

LoSboccacc 11y ago

it is indeed speculation, but at least anecdotal, not totally unfunded http://www.interactually.com/linkedin-creepiest-social-network/ http://www.interactually.com/linkedin-creepiest-social-netwo... http://imonlinkedinnowwhat.com/2009/09/14/linkedin-people-you-may-know-privacy-contrversy/ http://imonlinkedinnowwhat.com/2009/09/14/linkedin-people-yo... there are quite a few instances of weird guess about the people you might know suggestions of course the actual source is kept as one of their best secrets.

morgante 11y ago
Neither of those links you shared provided any evidence whatsoever for LinkedIn and Facebook having a secret bidirectional data sharing relationship. The far more intelligent explanation is that suggestions are, as LinkedIn repeatedly emphasizes, based on imported contacts. Note that even if you don't import contacts, the other person might have. Try using Occam's razor before jumping to unprofitable conspiracy theories. (Again, why on earth do you think Facebook would voluntarily share data with Facebook?)
- TeMPOraL 11y ago
  > Again, why on earth do you think Facebook would voluntarily share data with Facebook? Because why not? Facebook isn't really competing with LinkedIn right now - the latter doesn't try to enter private life, and the former doesn't really touch work life much. Both could benefit from sharing data with each other - from better recommendations to creation of shadow profiles. I don't see how this is an unreasonable theory.