On 1/28/2014 11:14 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 1/28/2014 9:17 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 1/27/2014 10:57 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>>> On 1/27/2014 8:32 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>>>
>>>> IME, LinkedIn started out to be for making business contacts. It has,
>>>> as I said, degraded to "do you know this person or that person"
>>>> Wanting
>>>> the equivalent of 'friending' on Facebook.
>>>
>>> I never did ask you about it, but I got an email saying you
>>> wanted me to sign up, or something like that. It was a few
>>> years back.
>
>> *I* didn't send it! I suspect they stole my address book. I
>> unsubscribed last year but I still get emails asking if I know
>> so-and-so. I finally saw the little unsubscribe link at the bottom of
>> the requests to turn off email notifications.
>
> If it was actually something from you, you'd have mentioned it
> first. And if I thought it was something you actually wanted
> me to sign up for, I would have said something.
>
Yes, I'd have mentioned it. The kicker that got me to unsubscribe was
when they sent me an email last year asking if I know Scott McKenzie.
Uh yeah. He's been dead since 2012. I seriously doubt he's checking in
on LinkedIn.

> There doesn't seem to be any protection for address books. This
> isn't the only time I've gotten (or sent) stuff that was from
> address book stealers.
>
> nancy

I think lots of these "social networks" harvest address books. IMHO,
it's highly unethical. It's probably written in *very* small print
somewhere in the TOS agreement.

Jill