Unsolicited LinkedIn requests

Wed Dec 12 02:24:22 UTC 2018

And for one that SPAM message that was sent to you on LI, now you've made a
bunch of SPAM for all the NANOG folks to read through.

Thanks for that...

-Mike

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 6:21 PM Mark Foster <blakjak at blakjak.net> wrote:

> > at 5:40 PM, John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
> >
> >> In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.1812111157380.6800 at whammy.cluebyfour.org> you
> >> write:
> >>> Agreed, and I do get unsolicited Linkedin requests quite often.
> >>> Sometimes, this is clearly the result of someone scraping a list like
> >>> NANOG in an effort to drum up new business/contacts.  Those end up in
> >>> the
> >>> bitbucket.
> >>
> >> When you turn down a connection there should be "I don't know this
> >> person" which demotes them somehow.  I gather that with enough of
> >> those, you can't do invites any more.
> >
> > This was the case back when LinkedIn were actively enforcing their TOS.
> > LinkedIn was largely started as and designed to be a referral service.
> > As
> > far as I can tell though, they’ve been letting strangers freely connect
> > with one another for years now.
> >
>
> I've seen success with the 'I don't know this person' feedback system as
> well, and encourage it's use.
>
> Unfortunately for LinkedIn there's a whole breed of L.I.O.N. (LinkedIn
> Open Networker) folks who believe in extending their social circle first
> and breeding connections from there.
>
> Somewhat akin to Twitter users who blindly follow everyone they come
> across, mainly in the hope of a reciprocal follow and not because they
> have any intent to interact with the person they're following, or even
> ever read their timeline. It's exposure, exposure, exposure.
>
> Mark.
>
>
>

-- 
Mike Lyon
mike.lyon at gmail.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlyon
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