[LINK] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[linda rouse]

Hi Roger

On 22/07/11 9:15 PM, Roger Clarke wrote:
> At 10:48 +0000 22/7/11, Sandeep Bhavsar wrote to link:
>> I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.
>> Sandeep Bhavsar
>> Librarian at Dr. V N Bedekar Institute of Management Studies
>> Mumbai Area, India
>
> Is it dumb to send to a list?    Or enterprising?

I think there is some serious spamming of the social networks these 
days. Just as Tony and I were duped by the Facebook invite, I received 3 
of those "Invitations' from Sandeep this morning.

>> Confirm that you know Sandeep Bhavsar
>> https://www.linkedin.com/e/tx5pa0-gqf10x8z-1p/isd/3620761880/nNCf7QfU/
>
> As distinct from 'confirm that you agree to be part of Sandeep's 'network'.
>
> Well, I guess 'network' is a less dishonest word than 'friend'.

I did connect with someone who I thought I'd been in touch with over a 
software download, and promptly received a sales email and other spam.

> Declarations:
>
> 1.  Contrary to my original expectations, I'm appalled at LinkedIn's Terms.
> http://www.rogerclarke.com/EC/LinkedIn-1012.html
> http://www.rogerclarke.com/EC/IU-SPE-A6-LinkedIn.html
>
> 2.  But I did set up an externally visible page, in order to be
> discoverable via LinkedIn.
>
> 3.  I was further appalled by the following:
>
> 3.1  I could find no location for my email-address and had to shove
> it into an at best vaguely relevant field
>
> 3.2  I've since had moderate numbers of requests to be in people's
> networks, but not one has contained a personal email-address, and not
> one has appeared to be anything other than an auto-generated message
>
>
> I still think that even blog infrastructure is hopelessly badly
> designed, and twitterdom deserves all the attention-deficit-syndrome
> sufferers it can muster;  but my astonishment at the banality of
> humankind reaches its apogee (or is it nadir?) when I get to 'social
> networking services'.
>
> Roger, go and pour yourself another glass of red.

Hear hear!


regards
Linda
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