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Here's another, this time with LinkedIn. I took an ambulance ride. The attendant in the back talked with me during the ride to monitor whether I was remaining
by 11thEarlOfMar 8y ago
Here's another, this time with LinkedIn.
I took an ambulance ride. The attendant in the back talked with me during the ride to monitor whether I was remaining lucid. Did not know him, never met him before, never saw him since.
A week later, I was scrolling through LinkedIn recommended connections and saw a face I recognized, but could not place.... until I saw that they worked for the ambulance company that I had ridden with.
Did LinkedIn track both of our locations and figure out that we rode in the same vehicle at the same time? This is absolutely possible. Did LinkedIn use voice prints to confirm that his voice came through my phone and mine through his and therefore we had a conversation? Can do.
Did they?
Color me freaked out.
- dzhiurgis 8y agoWhats the population of your town?
- 11thEarlOfMar 8y agoA 120,000 suburb in Silicon Valley (3,000,000 in contiguous cities/suburbs). Start and end points both in the same city limits.
- demygale 8y agoMost likely explanation: the ambulance attendant looked at your LinkedIn profile.
- michaelbuckbee 8y agoAttendant Google'd name of the patient -> clicked on LinkedIn profile. That would be enough to get them suggested to you.
- 11thEarlOfMar 8y agoOn the drive to my location... makes sense.
- tylermac1 8y agoYou said you saw it a week later. He could've looked at your profile any time in that week to establish a viable connection between you two.
- rco8786 8y agoWhy would it have to happen on the drive?
- aaron695 8y agoYou could use it to find questions to check how lucid they are. Equally they said something that piped the interest of employee to check after.
- puranjay 8y agoSimilar thing happened to me with both Facebook and LinkedIn. I visited a bank and spoke to an employee for about 10 minutes about opening an account for my business. My location was switched off and at no point did we exchange numbers. A day later, I saw that particular employee in my suggestions on both LinkedIn and Facebook We of course had no mutual connections at all
- cascada 8y agoYou had facebook app in your phone -- what is it you're surprised about?
- cascada 8y agoSo what? There had been hundreds or thousands of faces in the recommendations you didn't recognize.