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Re:Global coalition to Facebook: “Authentic names” are dange... by LoSboccacc on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @05:50AM (#10337747)
it is indeed speculation, but at least anecdotal, not totally unfunded

http://www.interactually.com/linkedin-creepiest-social-netwo...

http://imonlinkedinnowwhat.com/2009/09/14/linkedin-people-yo...

there are quite a few instances of weird guess about the people you might know suggestions

of course the actual source is kept as one of their best secrets.

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Re:Global coalition to Facebook: “Authentic names” are dange... by morgante on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @09:43AM (#10338788)
Neither of those links you shared provided any evidence whatsoever for LinkedIn and Facebook having a secret bidirectional data sharing relationship.

The far more intelligent explanation is that suggestions are, as LinkedIn repeatedly emphasizes, based on imported contacts. Note that even if you don't import contacts, the other person might have.

Try using Occam's razor before jumping to unprofitable conspiracy theories. (Again, why on earth do you think Facebook would voluntarily share data with Facebook?)

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Re:Global coalition to Facebook: “Authentic names” are dange... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @11:03AM (#10339322)
> Again, why on earth do you think Facebook would voluntarily share data with Facebook?

Because why not? Facebook isn't really competing with LinkedIn right now - the latter doesn't try to enter private life, and the former doesn't really touch work life much. Both could benefit from sharing data with each other - from better recommendations to creation of shadow profiles. I don't see how this is an unreasonable theory.

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