[digiKam-users] LinkedIn user group...

[Remco Viëtor]

On mercredi 23 janvier 2019 08:13:30 CET Stephane Ascoet wrote:
> > I asked the German Wikipedia for LinkedIn, especially the criticism.
> > LinkedIn sends unsolicited invitation emails to non-members, if not
> > responding, re- prompts. I have already received 2 invitations from you,
> > which you probably did not even initiate. ((:-)) It is interesting, to an
> > e-mail address, which I used perhaps 1 or 2 times provided. LinkedIn
> > probably read your e-mail history. I think there are no serious social
> > networks in this world.
> Hi, I fully agree. When I was on LinkedIn, I saw in my "proposed
> contacts" at least one people I didn't want to see(for personnal and
> complicated reasons I won't reveal here). The only way to make the link
> was to read her address book(or worse). I write "worse" because, yes, I
> couldn't think they could do such a thing than reading mail, but I read
> or heard something about this. I though it was on this list but after
> verification, it seems not. It was about an attorney service. They don't
> have the right to talk to the opposite side, or it could create very
> bigs problems. However, the opposite side received an invitation to join
> this attorney's network. It created huge problems, they had much work to
> calm the hurricane it made in the justice institutions. The only way to
> make the link between both of them was to read mails where opposite
> side's adress was written in the attorney box.
> 
> I closed my account(after having send a mail to my contacts that
> probably did have no effect) when I realized that this site with a
> professional layer were in fact just like the other ones and I don't
> understand why so much activist geeks are on it, especially because I
> don't have the feeling that employers use it so much in france(but I may
> be wrong).

LinkedIn indeed tend(ed) to spam others, based at least on the address book of 
members.
To the best of my knowledge, I do not have an account on LinkedIn. They seem 
to agree, as I used to get regular invites to join LinkedIn, supposedly from 
members/through members. Although that practice seems to have calmed down 
lately.

So, please do not replace this list by anything like LinkedIn, until such 
methods are abolished.

Remco