[CAUT] Invitiation to connect on LinkedIn

[Adkins, Richard]

Actually, no one invited us. The LinkedIn "app" goes into your
email address folder and copies/downloads it, and then uses it
to invite your friends to join. So, someone signed up that's on
this list and the PTG lists as well, and this is the result. It is
supposed to be some professional social app for people in
any profession to join. I guess you can read more about this
online. There was a big article on this on Yahoo news I believe
Friday.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/google-and-mobile-apps-take-data-books-without-permission/

So this is what's happening, and is going to happen...!

When you sign up for LinkedIn, if you read the fine print you
give them persmission to gather all kinds of info on you, like
your IP address,etc...AND your email contacts!

I would ignore this and all these other social apps until they get
their acts together.

I see no benefit in joingin LinkedIn, but some of you may, or may
have already done so. Thanks for the spam.
Cheers,
Rich A.

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> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:57:29 -0600
> From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net>
> To: caut at ptg.org
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
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> On 2/17/2012 9:11 PM, John Ross wrote:
> > Hi Nevin,
> > I find Linkedin to buggy for me, thank you for the offer.
> > Best regards,
> > John Ross
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> I've received a number of these invitations personally. Ignored, they
> tend to repeat. When I respond to the individual named asking why I
> would find it desirable to join, I get no response. So since the entire
> caut list has been invited to join, can anyone explain what this is for?
> The web site isn't awfully informative, but that's not unexpected. What
> are the supposed benefits of joining, and is there a bounty of some sort
> for a subscriber that signs up more people?
> Ron N
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