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- LinkedIn has employed "Dark Patterns" for a long time to scarf up your Address Book via your e-mail id. Then unless you are VERY careful you will end up spamm

- LinkedIn has employed "Dark Patterns" for a long time to scarf up your Address Book via your e-mail id. Then unless you are VERY careful you will end up spamming everyone with an invite. - They also employed a MTM attack on your mobile "Intro App" https://threatpost.com/linkedin-intro-app-equivalent-to-man-in-the-middle-attack-experts/102683 https://threatpost.com/linkedin-intro-app-equivalent-to-man-... - Have you noticed that the LI News feed is a high-noise collection of crap? - and on and on "Monetizing your users" is rapidly making that site useless for almost everyone.

colinbartlett 11y ago
LinkedIn was the first in a long line of social networks I deleted starting 4 years ago. Not sure how anyone gets value out of enough to justify.
- Ntrails 11y ago
  LinkedIn is not a social network. It's a site which holds my CV and then recruiters message me with Job Specs. I either like the spec or don't, and sometimes I get interviews from it. I accept any friend request from recruiters/colleagues and beyond that never ever use the site. My justification is I like getting job specs, and the cost is essentially nothing. Sure I hate that it's got a side panel asking me to connect with an old Wheel of Time fansite e-friend from Norway who was in my email contacts and I've not spoken to in some 15 years but it's hardly the end of the world.
  - dredmorbius 11y ago
    "Social" in the sense of leveraging (exceptionally aggressively) the social graph and personal connections. Less so in terms of content / context.
JimmaDaRustla 11y ago
It's funny you say "monetizing users". Immediately after reading that, I opened up linked in and I had a message in my inbox from IBM providing me a free trial to some software and it had a little "sponsored" tag on the inbox item. Dear god this site is wretched.

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- LinkedIn has employed "Dark Patterns" for a long time to scarf up your Address Book via your e-mail id. Then unless you are VERY careful you will end up spamm

by suprgeek 11y ago

colinbartlett 11y ago
LinkedIn was the first in a long line of social networks I deleted starting 4 years ago. Not sure how anyone gets value out of enough to justify.
- Ntrails 11y ago
  LinkedIn is not a social network. It's a site which holds my CV and then recruiters message me with Job Specs. I either like the spec or don't, and sometimes I get interviews from it. I accept any friend request from recruiters/colleagues and beyond that never ever use the site. My justification is I like getting job specs, and the cost is essentially nothing. Sure I hate that it's got a side panel asking me to connect with an old Wheel of Time fansite e-friend from Norway who was in my email contacts and I've not spoken to in some 15 years but it's hardly the end of the world.
  - dredmorbius 11y ago
    "Social" in the sense of leveraging (exceptionally aggressively) the social graph and personal connections. Less so in terms of content / context.
JimmaDaRustla 11y ago
It's funny you say "monetizing users". Immediately after reading that, I opened up linked in and I had a message in my inbox from IBM providing me a free trial to some software and it had a little "sponsored" tag on the inbox item. Dear god this site is wretched.