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Re:LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network by rayiner on Thursday May 09, 2013 @01:03PM (#5681551)
The "who has viewed your profile" feature leads to epic lulz. There is this forum on the internet that is full or racists, misogynists, and homophobes (and is tangentially useful for getting legal industry gossip). A major troll posted a link to a fake Linked-In page (under his control) with a comment along the lines of: "how did this person get this job with such a shitty resume" (or something like that). When people clicked on the link, if they had been logged onto their Linked-In, their real identity was revealed to the troll, who proceeded to out everyone on the forum. Hilarity ensued.
Re:LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network by Aloisius on Thursday May 09, 2013 @01:27PM (#5681706)
Hrm. That shouldn't work unless they are within three degrees of the person. Or at least, it didn't work when I was there. Views to people's public profiles weren't recorded and there is no automatic redirect to their private profile.

Links to people's private profiles have an auth token in it that is good only for the account that generated it, so unless you're relatively closely connected, you can't actually view links to random private profiles posted by people on the internet.

Re:LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network by dennisgorelik on Friday May 10, 2013 @12:31AM (#5684645)
3 degrees of separation covers a lot of people.
Re:LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network by bad_user on Friday May 10, 2013 @08:42AM (#5685846)
Unless you upgrade your profile.