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I have never joined facebook, and am thankful for this. But I was suckered into joining linkedin, and when I saw they had uploaded my contacts list from my gma
by cmos 16y ago
I have never joined facebook, and am thankful for this. But I was suckered into joining linkedin, and when I saw they had uploaded my contacts list from my gmail account, I had to leave.
Still not quite sure how they did that.
- jarek 16y agoYou had to have given them your Gmail password at one point. They keep on asking me to do it. (Yeah, right.)
- pak 16y agoHow evil would it be if they tried using your LinkedIn password with your profile's gmail address to access your gmail contacts? Probably 90% of people would have both passwords set to the same thing.
- jarek 16y agoPretty evil. I wouldn't be too surprised if they did, but that's a shitstorm waiting to happen, and Linkedin is still trying to uphold their 'professional' image. Personally I don't have my Gmail address as my contact email... but I doubt many people own their TLDs with corresponding mailboxes.
- julio_the_squid 16y agoAs you may know, they send all of your contacts who aren't members messages saying '<person name> invited you to join their network on (linkedin|facebook|twitter)'. Sometimes they even mail to 'remind' you again a month or two later. I don't think users necessarily realize these messages are being sent ostensibly on their behalf. In my view these large, successful companies are growing their user bases through spam.
- cmos 16y agoI know - I had family members asking me 'what this linkedin thing was'. That's when I quit. (I don't remember giving them my password, however the link to send someone an invite is actually a link to send EVERYONE and invite, and apparently that includes the contact list they uploaded (or from my point of view, stole))