Re:What LinkedIn Could Learn From OKCupid and Others
by ticks on Monday October 24, 2011 @10:12AM
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Yep. I never click on website profiles when I know that the person can see the visits. The good thing about LinkedIn is you can turn that off, but even then, I notice it adds the person to the suggested users list after a month or so (I wonder if it adds me to their suggested list?).
There's lots of reasons why I don't want people to know. Like for example, a friend works at company x, so every so often I look at other employee profiles at company x to see if he joined LinkedIn (and is therefore in their connections).
Just harmless stuff like that, which might look sinister to someone who doesn't know the context.
Re:What LinkedIn Could Learn From OKCupid and Others
by pspeter3 on Monday October 24, 2011 @11:42AM
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With my experience, LinkedIn will say that you are an anonymous user or give me a list of 15 people to guess who you are. I also don't think the people recommendations algorithm includes whose profile you visit.
Likewise, encouraging "random friends" would degrade the value of LinkedIn's network. Part of its current value is that your "connections" presumably have a real link (work history or friendship) with all of their "connections" and can potentially make a worthwhile recommendation or introduction. This goes away if randomness is introduced.
Dating sites are barely social networks - they exist to facilitate quick one-on-one interactions - so social networks should copy their features with extreme caution.