Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

Sharpe, Sam J sam.sharpe+lists.redhat at gmail.com
Tue Sep 22 18:20:20 UTC 2009


2009/9/22 Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>:
> On Tuesday 22 September 2009, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>FYI, when one joins LinkedIn or other social networks you are asked if
>>you want to have it access your "address book" to send invitations to
>>your "contacts".
>>
>>Apparently this is what happened...
>>
> Sounds like a winderz problem to me.  I won't personally touch those sites
> with a 10 foot piece of cat5.

Nope, it's a tick the box problem. And FWIW, LinkedIn can be extremely
valuable (unlike Facebook) - I've received some of my best job offers
from it as Recruiters seem to trawl it regularly.

-- 
Sam




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