[NBLUG/talk] Dan Labelle's invitation is awaiting your response

Glenn Kerbein glenn at spontaneousdancing.net
Tue Jun 11 22:36:03 PDT 2013


Most of what Lincoln says here is correct.
Yes, LinkedIn will scan your contacts for suggested connections. 
However, the user may specify who he or she wishes to connect with.

On 06/11/2013 10:31 PM, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:11 PM, irish.masms <irish.masms at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 6/5/13 3:25 AM, Dan Labelle (LinkedIn Invitations) wrote:
>> [snipped]
>>
>> Wow, that be some fail...
>
> I don't know if this is still the case, but LinkedIn has (or at least
> used to have) a "feature" where if you provide your GMail username and
> password, it will scan your GMail contacts and find anyone you know
> who is already registered, so that you can more easily connect with
> them.  What they don't tell you is that they'll automatically send
> invitations to anyone in your contacts who isn't already a member,
> without asking you first.
>
> My guess is that that's what happened here.
>
>
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