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Re:Linkedin selling contact information to Facebook on Friday August 05, 2016 @12:31PM (#12233620)
I thought about it. But it gets creepier. Former colleagues in different geographical locations who don't have my phone number/contact info but are only connected on linkedin appear in Facebook.

Linkedin selling contact information to Facebook

Posted by infopass on Friday August 05, 2016 @11:52AM
from the self-post dept.

I have noticed that my work colleagues have started up to appear in my Facebook 'people you may know'. The only way that is possible if Facebook got hold my linkedin network graph.Check your facebook 'people you may know' and comment. May be a class action is about to take shape

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Re:'Vice Principals’ Is Secretly a Show About Trump Voters on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @11:18AM (#12218558)
Oh you snotty 'White as snow Silcon valley wanna be geeks'. Not all trump voters are white. You would be suprised. Lot of us have PhDs and are brown and black. We just don't want our heads chopped off as a result of the next lackadaisical admin.