[digiKam-users] LinkedIn user group...

[Stefan Müller]

it looks like pixel.us runs a https://www.discourse.org/ instance, 
that's great :), the only thing what is missing is the mobile API to 
access it with https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.discourse.


On 23.01.2019 09:11, Remco Viëtor wrote:
> 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
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