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Search jobs. Tried the creeper experiment. For instance, an aunt has a cousin and your name in their address book. The 3rd party might not have stored the full names, phone numbers, email addresses, etc. True, but how would you explain the instances of them showing the names of people I do in fact know, but have no online connection with? I can see how one can find Linkedin a bit creepy but as a small to medium size business owner I have found it to be a extremely valuable tool in making some crucial business contacts.
So when one goes to the profile of an attractive female chances of them exiting via the profile of another attractive female are quite high. Similar scenario: I recently friended an Asian software developer. Seems likely that people simply viewed his profile then exited via a profile of one of his connections which consisted largely of other Asian men in software development.
But hell, I could be giving too much credit to the internet. My profile also shows other nerdy white guys, but I have, unfortunately, witnessed some creepy coworkers in the past stalking young professionals on LinkedIn.
I poked around LinkedIn and came to a similar conclusion. There are too many confounders in this model to draw any conclusions. There seem to be correlations along age, university, employer, industry, role, location, nationality, and gender. I think this has to be Facebook. LinkedIn suggested two people that I knew from an internet forum we both browsed, and I only knew their real names because we were briefly Facebook friends. I never contacted them via email or any medium other than that forum which, trust me, has no association with LinkedIn and Facebook.
Also IP addresses are involved. I just created a new user in a incognito window with a new gmail I have used for nothing else and was immediately offered the two real people who use machines here on a static IP address. Nov 27, - Reply. IP Addresses is a huge part. There have been people that I have never been in contact with via email, but because I shared the same Wireless connection as them once, LinkedIn thought it would be a good idea to suggest them. This was wayyy too far. I believe linked In is totally making a large repository of contact information when anyone provides it.
Within the last month, the total count of my views has went from 18, down to 5, and back up to Its suppose to be a running totally of the last 90 days, while those numbers are possible, I believe they are making them up or over inflating them most of the time. Hi, I noticed a similar connection soon after I installed the Linkedin app on my Android device. I think I just went with the default app settings.
This has resulted in my contacts getting their linkedin profile photos brought into my phone contacts. LinkedIn can definitely be creepy at times.
However, it does create an opportunity to network and communicate with colleagues. I guess the creepy factor is something that I have to get used to. I do try to NOT give them any more information than I think is needed for my profile but they already know so much about me.
I just hope that we will get more privacy options or I may consider leaving them altogether. They definitely need more privacy options but they also need to be more transparent about them and combine them. As I mentioned in the article, I found options in at least 3 different locations. In other words, it spammed a couple hundred people in my name! Try this — open up a random profile of someone you are not connected to! Random visitors will see tons more info — and the logged-in user will see a pile of advertising urging them to pay to get at the same data.
You are also overlooking the elephant in the room. All of these social network sites have one huge item in common that most folks seem to ignore. What is the true reality. Beyond that, you are simply meat to be fed to their true customers, the ad. Why not start an account under a fake name and wholly unused email address? Give it a week and report back please. Great article — and it alerted me to the existence of the privacy sub-section of the groups tab, which I had overlooked.
Excellent sleuthing. No matter how many times I choose ignore, every couple of months he pops back up again. We do share about 5 or 6 contacts and work in a similar ish area but I have never met or corresponded with him.
Up until now, I thought I was the only one noticing weird connections. Thanks for this post. LinkedIn has a strong motivation to develop connections for new users, so they make a lot of suggestions for those users. But they can also glean other kinds of information from user profiles — schools, connections to certain cities, companies and so on.
They may make a lot of long-shot and indirect suggestions based on that information. When they get a hit — you know the person, or you know someone with that name — then it seems creeeepy. In one example, she is a police officer. After 2 clicks all I had as recommendations were police officers of both genders and varying attractiveness , but predominantly male as is the industry.
Second example, grad students in social sciences. Again clicks in, I was getting a mix of male and female of varying levels of attractiveness, and more profiles without pictures than with. So is it an observation bias? Or is my network in need of beautification? I noticed this the other day and thought it was just weird coincidence! ALL of the profiles listed there are the most gorgeous ladies I am connected to.
Once in a while I sill get creeped out, though. I was so annoyed and creeped out by LinkedIn that not only will I never use it again, I asked them to ban my email address so nobody could contact me from the site and invite me back. So far so good. My only question is.. Check out the Ghostery plugin. That should prevent various sites from sharing your browsing information with social networks. It will remove ads as well as third party API calls and other privacy concerns.
Seems like that would count as a commonality similar looking-at-my-profile habits. What a pathetic article. You gotta be some kind of stupid to not understand that all they are doing is taking the friends of your friends and presenting it to you.
Wow, just wow. Thanks for your insightful, value-adding comment. In one example, the person spoke another language and lived on the other side of the world. You are spot-on right. They are creepy.
Although a few of the comments touched on mobile apps and their contact lists, I would like to add some of my own thoughts as an iPhone software developer. However, end users generally were not aware of this.
In the media spat that followed it soon became clear that basically the whole industry was doing this, including LinkedIn with its mobile apps for iPhone and iPad. I once use a fake email but my real name — i have a very unique last name, so it is not easy to miss me to register an account ie.
This tells me that LinkedIn is probably suggesting people who have also searched for me on their website but not necessarily visited my page. I have never had my own linkedin.
I created a LinkedIn account with a temporary email address with a fake name. I was really trying to be sneaky no trail. Bam what did I see 5 of my coworkers profiles. Zero connection except one item. We all shared the same IP address. I thought it was very creepy. If so LinkedIn may have associated your two accounts as having accessed via the same IP address.
As a non-technical person I figured LinkedIn might use cookies or trackers to figure this out… Thanks for sharing this story David! It suggested that I add all my coworkers as connections…. Just to make it clear. This was an account with 0 connections, new email with no contacts and the only reason why it might be able to tell I was connected to my fellow coworkers was that I was sitting only a few desks away from their work space…. May 12, - Reply. How does LinkedIn know that I know that person?
Thank you for bringing this topic to light and confirming my own doubts. There are also email plugins that people use. For example, I use Rapportive with Gmail. And while this is great in that it reveals more of the social profile of people I am emailing, it also reveals my own data. This makes it easy for LinkedIn to start cross-pollinating the data.
May 13, - Reply. When I opened my LinkedIn account I gave it access to my gmail account and selected a few names to send invites to. Then LinkedIn went through my contacts and sent invites to 1, contacts!!!!! They said it was my fault as I should have clicked Cancel after selecting the contacts which makes no sense.
May 14, - Reply. Thank you very much for this posting. Since they share my data, they must have a log of touchpoints they have shared my data with.. Otherwise they would be handling my data in a haphazard manner, wrt. I just asked them to provide a full list of all 3rd party applications and sites they have shared my data with. The jury is still out. May 15, - Reply. She had changed her name back to her maiden name, so I only recognized her from a photo.
May 24, - Reply. Today, they suggested someone that I once emailed off of craigslist about 5 years ago to inquiry about a job, and someone else that I purchased an online course off of about a year ago. I have no level of connection with either of them, and I live in a different country than both of them as well. They definitely go beyond your contacts AND scan your email accounts for any previous emails sent or received and store those emails addresses to make future suggestions.
This puts a whole new spin on my way of thinking, and how I approach my online accounts. Jun 1, - Reply.
Recently as in the past week I have started seeing people whom i have interviewed with in the past. The past being when I graduated college.
Jun 2, - Reply. I keep searching for this guy which is some kind from a royal family, His kinda hot. I look to his linked in profile just to know if he have one. But every time I signed in he is still there. I only got few connection which is really out of his network so how was that possible? I already leave the group which is common to us. So I been thinking they might been viewed my profile.
But for the guy I kept viewing he might knew I was viewing his profile because of the Upgrade account. But after reading this I am say that Linkedin might use data from your browser. Jun 11, - Reply. I only called on Friday to schedule an appointment and i spoke to her secretary. In addition there are other doctors at the clinic….
Jun 17, - Reply. Interesting times ahead! I agree with you, Linkedin feels creepy. I have definitely had no email contact with this person and the only thing I can think of is that I did a Google search on this person or something. Definitely creepy.
Jun 18, - Reply. There simply IS no way that LinkedIn could know that there is that connection. Jun 24, - Reply. Our connection? We play a certain videogame together and chat through Skype. Even more, our LinkedIn profiles are almost completely empty : he has his father, I have two friends from university. Jun 26, - Reply.
Thank you for this article. Very disturbing, indeed. Jun 27, - Reply. She, or someone with the same name, now lives in France. We dropped out of contact when I left Milan — 25 years ago. The other is the name of an Englishwoman I knew in Marbella — and, again, we dropped out of contact when I left Marbella. In neither case have we ever exchanged email addresses or, in fact, had any other contact whatsoever for the last 25 years. Oct 29, - Reply. There are always 3 other names as well, but those change frequently.
His is always there, and is the first one listed. It has made me suspicious……has he been checking out MY account? My guess is either he has looked you up, or someone you both know who may not necessarily be connected to one or both of you has checked both of your profiles. Also did you attend school together? Jun 30, - Reply.
My instant reaction was that we must have a mutual connection, which was the friend I was staying with. I just thought it was strange a coincidence? It was only when I realised that my friend was not a connection of Alia nor I, and nor does she even have LinkedIn, that got me concerned! The only explanation I could come up with is that Alia and I were using the same internet connection.
If LinkedIn is suggesting people we may know based on our IP Address, then is this not a breach of privacy?? Jul 3, - Reply.
IP addresses are involved. I have been suggested a 3rd degree connection with no common company, industry, neither school. I have never got his email either. However, this is not a privacy breach, since Linkedin Privacy Policy states the following: J. We may also receive location data passed to us from third-party services or GPS-enabled devices that you have set up, which we use to show you local information for example, weather information on our iPad application.
Jul 8, - Reply. I have never shared my contacts with any sites yet the first Linkedin suggestions was a friend from facebook. The second suggestion confirmed Linkedin looks at your search history. I had searched for their name and city in google, while linkedin profiles did appear in the results, I did not opened any of the pages. The person Linkedin suggested I knew was completely random, from a different country, industry with 0 connections. I should point out that had switched on all the privacy settings and had only added a banner with my name, city and industry to my profile.
I had not made any announcements about joining, viewed anyones profile since joining or tried to make any connections. Suspicious of the suggestions, I logged out and later searched for an ex colleague who I knew to have Linkedin account. Although we did work together a year before, this person now lives in a different country and works in different industry.
We are not facebook friends, however it is possible exchanged emails. I was surprised from simply typing their name and state into google, their Linkedin account was at the top of the results page — their name is not unusual. I did not click onto their profile, simple saw as one of many in the google results. Surprisingly, the next time I logged onto Linkedin this person had added me as a connection. Curious, I changed my privacy settings to allow me to see who viewed my profile.
My next login showed my profile had been viewed by a manager of a company in a completely different city and industry. At first I thought this was random as the company was a specialist firm and I had only vaguely listed the sector I worked in and had not said I was looking for work.
It was only later when I remembered that years earlier I had applied for job at this firm by email. I never got past the initial application form and had no further contact with them….
Jul 14, - Reply. Exceptional article! Thanks for taking one for the team but now what must we do to stop this breach of privacy??? To be honest, I cannot afford to NOT be connected in this volatile job market although I must mention that I have been against it from the start. Jul 19, - Reply.
Jul 29, - Reply. I am a postgraduate student in London writing my dissertation on the way people make use of LinkedIn either in their search for jobs or in their social or professional networking. I hope my research can provide new insight into the role of technology for employees today. I would like to ask you if anyone here would like to answer a few questions about how you use LinkedIn? I would very much appreciate your participation!
It should take about minutes to complete. I hope to publish my finding in an academic journal afterwards and if you are interested in reading the final research, I will be happy to send it to you. My finding will not be used for commercial purposes and you will of course be entirely anonymous. Please follow the link below to fill in the questionary and feel free to forward it to someone you know. Aug 2, - Reply. Do you use the LinkedIn phone app?
It has access to personal info calendar events and confidential info and social info including call logs and reading your contacts. So if you have your android setup to auto sync your gmail contacts to your phone, Linkedin now has those contacts.
And they definitely use web searches. I typed someone I knew from high school into google one day, and within a week it was suggesting that person as a possible connection. I have all the privacy settings unchecked too, from day 1. Aug 5, - Reply. My theory would be that if someone searches your profile, LinkedIn will later suggest that person as someone you may know. I reckon this is a good way to see who is checking you out.
It also means you will be suggested to people you have checked out blowing your cover. Also, if you search for say, Jack Jones, later LinkedIn will suggest to you people with that name, not necessarily the person you were looking for. Aug 7, - Reply. My wife recently signed up to LinkedIn from my Mac. She used the email address — her. Meaning contacts from my. LinkedIn claims not to store passwords yet when she is logged in they have then provided her with full view of my personal contacts!!!
In this case her. I have been freaked out by the connections that LinkedIn makes. And have come to similar conclusions to you. In addition, I believe there is a link to the PC that you use. For instance, as soon as I started using the web browser on my work PC, I started seeing suggested connections appear. This is in spite of me not having nominated my latest workplace on my LinkedIn profile and never having connected with any people at my new work place.
However, yesterday, I was completely freaked out which is what has led me to investigate a bit further and found your most informative blog on this topic. I changed my password on LinkedIn which triggered an email to my nominated account.
But it did not end there! I also received an email at my work email address. I have never nominated this company as my new employer on my profile. I have never used my work email address to register on any websites for anything. I have raised this concern with the team at LinkedIn and am awaiting their canned response! However, this leads to some serious questions about what LinkedIn is doing when you are logged on to their website on a device.
And like you, I believe we have all assumed that LinkedIn is doing all of this to make our lives simpler ha ha!! Aug 16, - Reply. I have people suggested to me that do not have, nor ever had a LinkedIn account.
I have never entered my Gmail password to look for people, as I was warned off by a friend who had sent invitations to around a people from her Gmail contact list. I have never synced my address book, and I have never used an Android app. My question to the Help Center was how that had been possible.
They kept going round in circles and I am no closer to the truth. One thing is clear: those email addresses were taken from my Gmail account, unless you maybe know of a different reason? Aug 19, - Reply. Okay, this is super weird. Something happened to me, and it led me to this website. Oh, I wonder whatever happened to so-and-so. He was so cool, or she was so great, ect. Or sometimes I search because, so-and-so told me that they worked at this place, but I forgot what was the name.
They really liked this company. I did this once with my neighbor who does not have facebook. Everything is linked. In fact, it has a pretty creepy user base as well. I can prove it, too. The game is simple. Go through your connections and pick out the profile of someone who happens to be, in your opinion, um…a young, attractive female. Try not to feel creepy yet, this is for science. What kind of faces do you see? Chances are, they are of more, erm, young and attractive females.
Thus concludes my venture into the deep, uncomfortable underbelly of social networking for professionals. LinkedIn has slipped under the radar when it comes to privacy controls and transparency, which I believe is unacceptable.
Everyone points to Google, Apple and Facebook and pretty much stops there. LinkedIn has experienced substantial growth in recent years, but they seem to be overstepping their bounds in certain areas.
They should also keep a close eye on their users—because no one wants another Chatroulette-style takeover…. I feel very grateful and life is wonderful for me and my family. Although health issue will continue to always be a big issue for me, I will deal with them each one at a time. The important thing is that young people worldwide with my condition can inspire others to do great things would something I would love to inspire!
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