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Last month I had to spend an hour making sure someone hadn't opened a LinkedIn account under my 8 year olds name after his aunt asked us why LinkedIn is suggest
by jasonkostempski 10y ago
Last month I had to spend an hour making sure someone hadn't opened a LinkedIn account under my 8 year olds name after his aunt asked us why LinkedIn is suggesting she connect with him. Turned out she had his iCloud email in her contacts because she FaceTimes with him. LinkedIn thought it was OK to use her contact list to make it appear like he had an account there. The bastards found a way to waste my time even though I have no account with them. Humanity would be generally better off without LinkedIn.
- coherentpony 10y agoWhat's to say LinkedIn didn't create the account after seeing the contact information?
- Retric 10y agoThen that's LinkedIn's account not his kid's account.
- FT_intern 10y agoI assume that LinkedIn has made deals with third party social networks to get the creepy connection suggestions. I'm curious how much $$$ is involved
- jonathankoren 10y agoYou would be wrong. It really isn't hard to build PYMK. It's basically just triangle closing on common friends and address book import.