Microsoft wants to buy LinedIn.

Post #411,067 by Another Scott 6/13/16 4:17:26 PM 6/13/16 4:17:26 PM Reply	Microsoft wants to buy LinedIn. Glad I never signed up. Drum has a good idea: Here's an experiment for Microsoft: Allow LinkedIn users to delete their accounts completely. Then sit back and see how many folks take you up on this. LinkedIn may be a major brand name, but it's also been infamous for years because of its refusal to ever allow anyone to leave its fabulous family. If you so much as sign up just to see what all the fuss is about, you can never leave, and you will get "invitations" forever from acquaintance who want you to join their LinkedIn network. I get the same invites and I've never signed up... :-/ Cheers, Scott.
Post #411,068 by a6l6e6x 6/13/16 4:24:01 PM 6/13/16 4:24:01 PM Reply	It's really a done deal other than the formalities. Two unethical companies joining. What could be more natural? I got tricked into joining, but have been deleting all their emails ever since. I suppose it could be useful for people that need to network. But, being retired it has no value to me. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #411,072 by malraux 6/13/16 5:52:42 PM 6/13/16 5:52:42 PM Reply	Turning off the emails is a setting. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #411,079 by mmoffitt 6/14/16 8:15:27 AM 6/14/16 8:17:29 AM Reply	Unless you "delete" your account. I was forced to create one and when the next day I had over 250 email requests I went to my boss and said, "I get over 200 business email messages a day as it is, I really don't want any of this spam, can I delete my account?" He said I could. So I did. That was about six years ago. I've written to them a half dozen or so times to delete my information and they still haven't. So, I tried to log in to see if there was a setting (like the one you suggest). I couldn't (my account didn't exist), so again I contacted their support and was told that my account was no longer valid so I could not log in. As late as yesterday I got another request to "join my network." It's like everything else on the tubes. Once you give them the data, they, not you, own it. Edit: Looked it up, it was over six years ago I "deleted" my account, not four. Edited by mmoffitt June 14, 2016, 08:16:34 AM EDT Edited by mmoffitt June 14, 2016, 08:17:29 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #411,081 by Another Scott 6/14/16 8:18:10 AM 6/14/16 8:18:10 AM Reply	Yup. It's like everything else on the tubes. Once you give them they data, they, not you, own it. And that's what Microsoft bought - the contact information, not some magical spam "technology". Of course they aren't going to give up any information. Which was also Drum's point, also too. Cheers, Scott.
Post #411,086 by pwhysall 6/14/16 9:42:17 AM 6/14/16 9:42:17 AM Reply	The contact info? You really think that MS think that LinkedIn accounts are worth £170 each? No, this is not about the contact info. It's about a functional social network (400M active accounts, etc) as a defence against Facebook and (hahahaha stop laughing at the back yes I know it's funny but really) Google+.
Post #411,098 by a6l6e6x 6/14/16 3:35:49 PM 6/14/16 3:35:49 PM Reply	Re: The contact info? The Microsoft-LinkedIn hookup will be the END of DAYS, I tell you Now Microsoft, a convicted monopolist that distributes product marketing nagware as security updates and who has proven serially untrustworthy will own the gateway to your career. Fan-frakking-tastic. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #411,101 by Another Scott 6/14/16 8:55:15 PM 6/14/16 8:55:15 PM Reply	Paranoia, but worth thinking about... Microsoft have shown that they are not above using malware techniques to push Windows 10. All that really remains is ransomware. Why hold a desktop to ransom, however, when you can hold someone's entire career? It would really suck if Microsoft's purchase of LinkedIn evolves, (or devolves,) into Peeple, but "for professionals", and with careers on the line. Hmmm... Cheers, Scott.
Post #418,542 by CRConrad 6/14/17 5:04:18 AM 6/14/17 5:04:18 AM Reply	I think many of those "Join my network!" emails are from people who imported their own... ...e-mail contacts into LinkedIn. That's the only way people without a profile there could get those mails. Otherwise they'd have to be directly lying to those like Alex and Mike who deleted their accounts; not impossible, of course, especially if they don't actually delete an account but just make it "dormant". But then they'd offer you to re-activate it on the login page. (Facebook does something like that, don't they?) And that couldn't explain Scott's experience. So it has to be people who have your e-mail address in their mail system importing them into their LinkedIn account, probably when they sign up for it. -- Christian R. Conrad Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi (Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)

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