It knows your keywords and your topics. If you upload items to Slideshare — well LinkedIn owns that too. Information theory techniques map seemingly random variables to generate lists of recommended groups for you to join. LinkedIn also has access to all the data in apps that you have authorised to connect with it using OAuth.
Perhaps you have used your LinkedIn account to log into a service. You might have added extra functionality to tools such as HootSuite by adding LinkedIn. Remember, if you have not signed out from LinkedIn, then it is collecting data from sites you visit which have either a LinkedIn plug in or an authentication request from you.
Your browser settings — and your log on details have allowed this to happen. So do not worry too much when it suggests someone you never expected it to uncover — from a totally different part of your online life. How to delete your Facebook account for good. How Meta could muck up the metaverse. Meta's Workplace offers new integrations with Microsoft Teams.
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It took me awhile to realize the two characters were unrelated but still,…I found your article because LinkedIn had to have been screening my Google searches. I think if LinkedIn has the right to screen your activity on the internet,…that should be an obvious part of the agreement and certainly not in the fine print.
This is unscrupulous at best. Logged into Google or LinkedIn? I do not have a google account and have never synced my emails with linkedin a matter of fact, I do not know the person I googled email, telephone number, etc. Great article. A few months ago, I sent a mass email to attorneys. Connect with John. Was your mass email from inside LinkedIn? Maybe you had originally pulled in friends from gmail way back when you joined LinkedIn.
Go figure. Sounds familiar. Did you ever allow LinkedIn access to invite your friends? LinkedIn is flat out scary. I have not updated my profile in 10 years. I have different email accounts that I use for different programs and different sets of friends family, work, college, high school, neighborhood, etc. And still, they find a way to suggest people I know.
Thanks for commenting! So is there any way to remove someone permanently from the display? That should take care of it. No, it just comes back at a later day. I have people that I clicked the X on 10 times just this week , and popped back up on the list again today.
LinkedIn is still not transparent about all this — in spite of litigation. I just added the update to this class-action suit saga — a settlement was reached June 12, Please see above for my latest update. Just an observation. LinkedIn has just suggested the points loyalty system for Eurostar trains as a potential person I may know.
Anyhow, none of them had my email. None of them did know my surname. We have zero connections in common. Facebook does the it best. You can go big on Facebook, friending up to 5, people and letting even more people friend you — or if you really want popularity, you can create a Facebook page and collect likes there.
But you can also create specific lists of people with whom you want to share specific kinds of news and content, or use your restricted list to ensure that some people on your Facebook friends list see only your public content.
Offering a more nuanced approach to how we connect with people would turn LinkedIn into the engine of a new way of looking at the role of social networks in our working lives. Connecting online is now as big a part of our professional networking as face-to-face meetings and conferences. But just as in the offline world, some of those connections are more meaningful than others. You have 1 free article s left this month. Many LinkedIn users wonder if LinkedIn asks them about another user because that person clicked their profile.
While that is certainly a possibility, that is not the only thing LinkedIn considers. It is also likely that the person sent you a connection request, or at least attempted to send you one. Sometimes LinkedIn asks this question to ensure that users are not sending massive amounts of connection invitations. They do not want LinkedIn users spamming others.
This may be their attempt to find out if users are mass-sending these invites. Additionally, the algorithms used by LinkedIn are much broader than people think. LinkedIn also considers the region you use on your LinkedIn profile to determine which users you may possibly know. It suggests LinkedIn members for you to connect with. According to LinkedIn, these recommendations are based on commonalities between you and other LinkedIn members.
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