LinkedIn just seems overwhelmingly sleezy to me. How do they keep getting away with this stuff?
I deleted my account forever ago, but I get emails constantly saying so-and-so wants to connect with me. After the first 3-5, I looked into it. Nope-- no one's trying to contact me through LinkedIn at all. Just LinkedIn doing its thing.
Yes, exactly. In case you signed up using your work email, like practically everybody does, and then one day find yourself not working where you used to work.
1) Why would anyone use a temporary email to sign up to a social service?
2) Why would anyone use their work email for a job networking social site knowing full well that work emails are not private?
Did they? Did they really?
That's pretty much what I thought, i.e "LinkedIn spent considerable effort building something that very few of their users want".
Thanks for confirming that there's no evidence otherwise.
It's more common than you may think, especially for companies where the user is not a paying customer and the feature benefits the company. Sure somebody wants this feature. Somebody who works for linkedin and isn't a security geek.
And for companies with poor-decision-making skills or short-term thinking.