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I can see how this may confuse people who aren't tech savvy, but as a tech person, I immediately recognise this as a ghost profile. When you see five or six of
by imdsm 13y ago
I can see how this may confuse people who aren't tech savvy, but as a tech person, I immediately recognise this as a ghost profile. When you see five or six of these amongst the actual profiles, and all of them just so happen to be people from your email, possibly who you haven't spoken to in years, you can put 1 and 1 together and know it's a trick.
- buro9 13y agoLiterally a ghost profile, the person is dead. LinkedIn must have zero empathy for what loss does to people to use such tactics that can cause distress.
- seszett 13y agoMaybe it's not common (at least while most developpers are not in their 80's) and they didn't think of it. The idea that they are evil people is more appealing, though.
- icebraining 13y agoWouldn't it cause the same distress if the deceased person really had had a LinkedIn account? Seems to me that the distress is not caused by the tactics in and of themselves.
- jhandl 13y agoHow should anybody know, from an email address alone, if the owner is alive?