On a serious note, many of these social network sites use sneaky underhanded tricks like this to pump up their userbase. They convince you to give up your username and password to your email so they can harvest your address book and spam your contacts.
I find the convenience of not having to type in their addresses is not worth the spam, privacy implications, and risk of them handing my password carelessly (you'd be surprised how lax these companies can be).
-- "It's only zeros and ones." - Spaf
On Sep 20, 2011 2:01 PM, Ross Kuhns <[email protected]> wrote:
No worries. Is LInkedIn still bad? I recall when I was more corporate that they were always trying to get all of your emails...and the fine print said that they can do whatever (and to whoever) they want with your information.
On Sep 20, 2011, at 4:55 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Fellow enthusiasts, I was at the LinkedIn networking site today and I was trying to connect with only a dozen or so recruiters from companies where I've worked.Well, and I'm not sure how this happened, the LinkedIn software grabbed about 2700 Email addresses, including those in my AOL account, and sent invitations to everyone! I'm sure some of you may have received an Email from me, or LinkedIn, and you didn't know what to make of it.Just DELETE it. I apologize for the inconvenience this has caused. I don't know what LinkedIn's software was doing intruding into my personal Email address box, unless LinkedIn has a previously unidentified virus, but I intend to hassle them a great deal regarding this.Respectfully,Jerry aka LGO_______________________________________________
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