LinkedIN - how many folks use it?
Nov 4, 2007 | 1:57 am
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) can see the group's logo prominently displayed on your profile, and likewise you can see it on theirs.Whether these features are useful to you perhaps depends on how close an affinity you have with other members of the group.
Nov 18, 2007 | 4:47 pm
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I don't think so. There is no way for a spammer to get your address unless you accept an invitation from one. I've never gotten any spam from LinkedIn.
Nov 18, 2007 | 5:54 pm
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Not sure what you mean by "spam." Do you mean unwanted invitations to join someone's network? Or do you mean random unwanted e-mail of other kinds?
Nov 18, 2007 | 6:32 pm
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LinkedIn is much more business relationship focused vs. Facebook being more social relationships (IME/O). I get far more "spam" on Facebook than I do on LinkedIn.
If I haven't actaully interacted with a person in a business context I typically do not connect with them in LinkedIn. In Facebook it is people I know in the real world but there may not be a business relationship. I don't link with people I do not know which keeps true spam to a minimum.
If I haven't actaully interacted with a person in a business context I typically do not connect with them in LinkedIn. In Facebook it is people I know in the real world but there may not be a business relationship. I don't link with people I do not know which keeps true spam to a minimum.
Nov 18, 2007 | 8:51 pm
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LinkedIn is much more business relationship focused vs. Facebook being more social relationships (IME/O). I get far more "spam" on Facebook than I do on LinkedIn.
If I haven't actaully interacted with a person in a business context I typically do not connect with them in LinkedIn. In Facebook it is people I know in the real world but there may not be a business relationship. I don't link with people I do not know which keeps true spam to a minimum.
If I haven't actaully interacted with a person in a business context I typically do not connect with them in LinkedIn. In Facebook it is people I know in the real world but there may not be a business relationship. I don't link with people I do not know which keeps true spam to a minimum.
Are you talking about unwanted invitations to join someone's network, or some other kind of "spam?"
Nov 19, 2007 | 6:50 am
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I took Daria's spam comment to be about unwanted invitations. That is the context in which I used the term. I have never received true spam through any social networking site.
Nov 19, 2007 | 10:41 am
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In the case of unwanted invitations, I have been on LinkedIn for a few years now and I think I have received maybe 2 or 3 unwanted invitations from headhunters.
Nov 19, 2007 | 12:40 pm
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I haven't been on LinkedIn but was on another site when the topic was brought up. People on there said they got little out of it other than a lot of spam. The impression I got was that they were sent solititations from companies to use their products. Having never been on the site, I don't know if this is possible but enough people said it that it turned me off of joining.
Nov 19, 2007 | 1:05 pm
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there's something wrong with my LinkedIn account... I can log in but I can't edit anything because it keeps on asking me to log in again and again.
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Nov 19, 2007 | 11:46 pm
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Nov 20, 2007 | 2:06 am
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This has happened, however, on the new Plaxo social networking service, and although I use Plaxo, I don't use it for that feature.
Nov 20, 2007 | 3:40 am
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I haven't been on LinkedIn but was on another site when the topic was brought up. People on there said they got little out of it other than a lot of spam. The impression I got was that they were sent solititations from companies to use their products. Having never been on the site, I don't know if this is possible but enough people said it that it turned me off of joining.
I've had some useful results from LinkedIn, as I posted earlier in this thread. I think you get out of it what you put in. And of course if you never bother to learn what it is really about and how to use it, and you don't ever join it, you'll get absolutely nothing out of it.
Nov 20, 2007 | 8:48 pm
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Nov 20, 2007 | 11:02 pm
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LinkedIn is much more business relationship focused vs. Facebook being more social relationships (IME/O). I get far more "spam" on Facebook than I do on LinkedIn.
If I haven't actaully interacted with a person in a business context I typically do not connect with them in LinkedIn. In Facebook it is people I know in the real world but there may not be a business relationship. I don't link with people I do not know which keeps true spam to a minimum.
If I haven't actaully interacted with a person in a business context I typically do not connect with them in LinkedIn. In Facebook it is people I know in the real world but there may not be a business relationship. I don't link with people I do not know which keeps true spam to a minimum.
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