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People without LinkedIn accounts? Are you quite certain? I worked at LinkedIn and know exactly how People You May Know used to work (I've looked at the code). U
by Aloisius 13y ago
People without LinkedIn accounts? Are you quite certain? I worked at LinkedIn and know exactly how People You May Know used to work (I've looked at the code). Unless they changed something in the last couple years (and given their dev cycle, I doubt it), every single person who it recommends has signed up to LinkedIn. Of course, I heard people make these claims while I worked there too.
Also, it really isn't that hard to guess how it works (hint: are you sure you need every single person to give address books access to build a graph?).
- officemonkey 13y agoMy friends cats (who have email addresses but have never signed up on Linkedin) show up as "People You May Know." Explain that one.
- whbk 13y agoI think you should first explain why you're friends with someone who makes an email for their cat ;)
- officemonkey 13y agoSo they can get Facebook pages, duh.
- aptwebapps 13y agoHas your friend signed up to LinkedIn and let them have his or her contacts? What about all your friend's friends who have the cats in their contact lists?
- officemonkey 13y agoShe says no. And the cats don't email anyone.
- dror 13y agoHow does she know? Maybe while she's out the cats email or even signed up for an account with linkedin? She should install a webcam to double check.
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- weego 13y agoCats prefer twitter.
- jessaustin 13y agoDude the cats hacked all the webcams ages ago. If they don't want you to see it you won't see it.
- lostlogin 13y agoWhat an appropriate comment for your username. I'm still trying to figure out what LinkedIn have done to my email, but basically my wife and I are inundated with spam from them. It's non stop. I only signed up to learn more about the person who hit our car and has been slow to pay. It was helpful, but despite opting out of every option I could, somehow its learnt that my wife exists and is nailing us both with spam.
- ZoF 13y agoApply a spam filter...?
- Ave 13y agoIt seems to be a recent feature. I recently started seeing my 10 year old cousin's email in the "People You May Know" section, and I'm fairly certain she has never signed up for LinkedIn.
- trailfox 13y agoPerhaps you could shed some light on my other post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6426192 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6426192
- alepper 13y agoIf I click 'see more' under the 'people you may know' list on the homepage, fully half of the eight people above the fold are without LinkedIn accounts. These include family members who I can be certain don't have accounts. I assume clicking 'add to network' (rather than the 'connect' for those who do have accounts) would generate an invitation to join LinkedIn.
- Bootvis 13y agoIt suggests 'people' by email address that are my own. In the past I used gmail as a Dropbox together with a friend and it always shows name1 + name2 @ gmail.com as someone I might know. I'm pretty sure everyone involved has forgotten the password for that account.