Re:LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS
by shortsleeves on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @06:13PM
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I think you might be forgetting that by e-mailing said person, you become part of their contacts too. Should that person decide to import or sync their contacts in linkedin, a relationship between you and that person is established on their server. ie: it's an _undirected_ edge between you and your contact, which they seem to use to display stuff back to you.
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Re:LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS
by tedunangst on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @06:51PM
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no, no, no. Reddit's Razor: if a corporation could be doing something evil, they are doing that something.
Re:LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS
by brymaster on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @07:32PM
(#6602496)
These "social" big data companies have a history of doing evil (or sometimes, stepping right up to that line) and $LKND certainly isn't in business to be altruistic.
Their iphone app used to slurp up your data without authorization: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/06/your-iphone-calendar-is...
Furthermore:
LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5680680
LinkedIn opts 100 million users into sharing information with ads
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2872030
LinkedIn is Evil
Re:LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS
by tedunangst on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @10:40PM
(#6603123)
I thank you for providing examples that prove my point. :) That's mostly speculation along the lines of "evil could have been done, therefore evil must have been done".