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Re:It’s Probably Not Okay to Send Naked Pictures on LinkedIn by ghaff on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @04:29PM (#14555866)
It's very unclear from the article. LinkedIn does have various services for companies but, in the context of this article, it's not at all obvious that this is something equivalent to a company's twitter handle.

While I certainly think of LinkedIn as largely a professional thing (and would never send these sorts of messages regardless), some of the discussion further down in the story seems off-base. At some level, I'm associated with my company in all non-anonymous or pseudonymous social media but beyond that level I'm not sure why LinkedIn would have some special status because LinkedIn likes to position itself for professional networking.

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Re:It’s Probably Not Okay to Send Naked Pictures on LinkedIn by Volundr on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @04:43PM (#14555965)
The article didn't make it clear if it was a personal or a company account, but the interaction began with him trying to recruit her. So clearly in this instance he's representing the company, regardless of what account he's using.
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Re:It’s Probably Not Okay to Send Naked Pictures on LinkedIn by ghaff on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @04:47PM (#14556004)
Oh agreed. Even if we were talking about a personal email account (which would admittedly be odd), the same would apply. I was more referring to some of the comments further down in the article that seem to argue for LinkedIn having some special status as a network only for purely professional interactions.
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Re:It’s Probably Not Okay to Send Naked Pictures on LinkedIn by watwut on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @05:02PM (#14556095)
The information about account is in the sentence "received sexual messages from a banker—using his corporate account—who had been trying to recruit her."
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Re:It’s Probably Not Okay to Send Naked Pictures on LinkedIn by ghaff on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @05:07PM (#14556125)
Yes. I read that. I also know that LinkedIn has paid services such as company pages as well as for sharing content. And LinkedIn may have special paid accounts for recruiters that I'm not aware of. However, other comments further down in the article from the company suggest this was just a regular old LinkedIn account. Hence "unclear."
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