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Andy M-S
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3377
Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT6/25/13 4:57 PM |
Apologia -- Linked In
All:
This morning, my spouse went to set up her professional Linked In account for the first time.
Somehow--we don't know quite how--instead of setting up a new account for her, she linked to MY account, and LI scarfed her email directories and sent out over a thousand notifications. Apparently she linked both her professional email AND her personal email, and the personal mail is the Yahoo account that *I* established something like 15+ years ago and used as my personal account for the first 5 or 6 years, so it had lots of MY old contacts in it.
The upshot is that many of you may have been invited to join me on Linked In this morning. Since I've been seriously trying to keep my Linked In account limited to folks who are in the legal/ADR fields, things are now a little bit complicated.
I apologize for any confusion this morning's debacle may have caused...we now return you to your regular off-topic discussions...
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ErikS
Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 8337
Location: Slowing boiling over in the steamy south, Global Warming is real6/25/13 8:02 PM |
So get a strava account and spam all her contacts.
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April
Joined: 13 Dec 2003
Posts: 6593
Location: Westchester/NYC6/25/13 8:16 PM |
Haha!
I'm a little baffled. How does Linked In get the e-mail contact?
(yes, I got lots of "invites" from friends on Linked In. When asked, they all answer "somehow Linked In got the e-mail contact". But how???)
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bikerjohnpostal
Joined: 21 Sep 2004
Posts: 700
Location: Grass Lake, Mi6/25/13 8:23 PM |
linked in
It asks about every 3rd time that you log on if you want to use your existing email contacts to help find people to connect to. It especially does that on mobile devices where you normally don't log out of your email. it finds them and viola, you have a whole list of people is just sent contacts to. I do find it interesting to see who the suggested contacts are. Some of them are three jobs and a completely different career ago.
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dfcas
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 2816
Location: hillbilly heaven6/26/13 11:41 AM |
I don't understand what the hell it is, but I get spam all the time from it. I tried to log in and it said I was not a user, but I did find some way to unsubscribe and spam seems reduced. What value does Linkedin offer?
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Andy M-S
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3377
Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT6/26/13 11:54 AM |
"Professional" networking
It's supposed to be a jobs-and-work-related "professional" networking site, as opposed to a cat pictures social networking site (can't think of any of those!). Unfortunately, the business where it vacuums up your email lists tends to put it in the screw-the-pooch site category far too often.
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dan emery
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 6894
Location: Maine6/26/13 12:21 PM |
Linked In Sucks
I joined because I got a number of invitations from (or on behalf of) a friend, and recently renewed because I wanted to contact someone and had no other way to do it. Fortunately I have been alert enough to notice and reject the requests to vacuum my contacts. I have no use for the business/networking aspects, and it just sends useless emails (Jane Doe just connected with Betty Boop!). Hate it. Actually this crap bothers me more than the govt collecting email for security reasons.
But I am offended because I didn't get one of Andy's invitations!
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dfcas
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 2816
Location: hillbilly heaven6/26/13 12:21 PM |
As a piano technician, how would I use it for my benefit?
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Andy M-S
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3377
Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT6/26/13 1:05 PM |
@Dan
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But I am offended because I didn't get one of Andy's invitations!
I can arrange to have some nice young men knock on your door...
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19092
Location: PDX6/26/13 1:16 PM |
"As a piano technician, how would I use it for my benefit?"
I am sure there is a 'chiming in' or 'tuning in' pun there someplace...
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pete hausner
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 1551
Location: Outer Beantown6/28/13 3:51 PM |
Reading this stuff never gets old...
You guys do keep a smile on my face...
;>))
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Steve B.
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Posts: 769
Location: Long Island, NY6/28/13 4:09 PM |
"As a piano technician, how would I use it for my benefit?"
You could link to the other piano technicians in your state. You know, the other one. Maybe use it to plan the state piano technician convention. Don't forget the name tags.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19092
Location: PDX6/28/13 5:44 PM |
"Don't forget the name tags."
Both of them. ;)
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