I have passed this excellent critique on to the appropriate product manager. I'm not deeply familiar with that aspect of the site, but it certain sounds problematic and worth examining. My apologies for not seeing this earlier (and for turning you into a spammer). If anyone has LinkedIn questions or issues (or wants a job) they should definately email me directly *without *the IXDA subject line, since that's what I'm filtering on. :) You do indeed have a friend at Linkedin.
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Dave Meeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Will... and again, sorry everyone! > What a bad situation! > > For anyone who cares... here is the experience that I had which has > led to a zillion people I don't know that well getting LinkedIn > requests from me. That bothers me because I like LinkedIn a lot, but > ONLY use it for people I actually have connections with. And now, that > is shot. > > When you add people from your Gmail address book (or any address > book), the LinkedIn UI shows you the full list of folks on-screen. I > selected about 10 people out of the two thousand-or so person list. I > clicked "send invitation", the page reloads, and at the top (which I > did not see) was the message that my invitations had been sent. > Honestly, to me, it didn't look as if anything had happened at all, so > I clicked "send invitations" AGAIN. When I did this I failed to > recognized that it had checked every single user by default, and there > was absolutely no way to stop it. > > I'd love to see a different mechanism in place to handle looking up > people from your email accounts and sending them invites. I believe > the intention on LinkedIn's side is to get as many people to sign up > as possible. I understand that. I "get it". What I don't get is a > happy feeling knowing that I just sent spam out to a ton of people I > do not know, and now many of those people are acting on my request and > becoming "Connected to me". Good for LinkedIn... Bad for a LinkedIn > User. > > Other than that, I love the service. But I would request that they > revist the experience design of this portion of the Web site. > > Again... sorry everyone. > > Dave > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
