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Notifying users when their profile is viewed is crazy for anything other than a dating site, where these notifications simulate the real life mating ritual of c
by saturdaysaint 15y ago
Notifying users when their profile is viewed is crazy for anything other than a dating site, where these notifications simulate the real life mating ritual of coyly expressing interest in someone. I'm not a huge privacy freak, but I don't want anyone on any other network to know I've viewed their profile unless I take a specific action or opt in.
Likewise, encouraging "random friends" would degrade the value of LinkedIn's network. Part of its current value is that your "connections" presumably have a real link (work history or friendship) with all of their "connections" and can potentially make a worthwhile recommendation or introduction. This goes away if randomness is introduced.
Dating sites are barely social networks - they exist to facilitate quick one-on-one interactions - so social networks should copy their features with extreme caution.
- ticks 15y agoYep. I never click on website profiles when I know that the person can see the visits. The good thing about LinkedIn is you can turn that off, but even then, I notice it adds the person to the suggested users list after a month or so (I wonder if it adds me to their suggested list?). There's lots of reasons why I don't want people to know. Like for example, a friend works at company x, so every so often I look at other employee profiles at company x to see if he joined LinkedIn (and is therefore in their connections). Just harmless stuff like that, which might look sinister to someone who doesn't know the context.
- pspeter3 15y agoWith my experience, LinkedIn will say that you are an anonymous user or give me a list of 15 people to guess who you are. I also don't think the people recommendations algorithm includes whose profile you visit.
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