Hi folks,
I'm not going to name-and-shame, but I just got a LinkedIn connection request completely out of the blue from somebody with the comment "Greetings from another NANOG user!"
I didn't recognise the name, and a quick search of my email history suggests we haven't interacted before.
Please don't do this: It's not very polite.
~A
Sorry that’s me!
Often times people post on linked in and I wanted to have it show up in my newsfeed
If this isn't allowed let me know and sorry for that!
That’s really lame.
If you don’t want people contacting you on Linkedin then why do you have a link to your profile on your website?
Don't complain about people adding you on social media when you sign-up for social media. I can only assume you are complaining to get more views on your social media.
I help in your endeavors I have listed your social media's I could find in a quick search.
https://www.alfiepates.me/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alfiepates/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alfie_Pates_Self-Portrait_2017.jpg
https://github.com/alfiepates
https://pgp.cs.uu.nl/stats/654a98a79ac41734.html
https://www.instagram.com/alfiepates/?hl=en
https://www.flickr.com/photos/alfiepates/
https://keybase.io/alfiepates
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI_1D5aDl30EnvQI6JsOmBw
https://soundcloud.com/alfie-pates
https://wiki.edinburghhacklab.com/people:alfie
https://twitter.com/AlfiePates
https://foursquare.com/alfiepates
v1apates@inf.ed.ac.uk
alfie@alfiepates.me
Well said...
But I can't see that on his website...
M. OMER GOLGELI
not sure he was complaining about the request, just that it provided
no context or reason why they should link. a personal pet peeve of
mine.
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.
It is annoying, but an unfortunate reality these days...
Thank you
jms
I got the same invite.
Sharing your profile in order to make certain information available to
potential customers, vendors, partners etc, is not an invitation to
connect on the basis of a tenuous-at-best professional tie-in.
I'm firmly in the camp of 'Use LinkedIn to remain connected with people
that I know or have done business with', and unsolicited invitations from
people I don't know are almost universally ignored and/or blocked...
It also tends to flavour my thinking if i'm later in the market for
services similar to those offered by someone who's tried it on in this
manner in the past.
Amazingly I had a sales-type engage with me via InMail just recently,
defending his cold sales approach (spam, basically) when I tried to do the
polite thing and explain why what he was doing was 'bad'.
Mark.
Well, that must be my curse…
Even when adblocker doesn’t notify me, I have stuff blocking stuff…
M. Omer GOLGELI
LinkedIn has a "I don't know this person" option when you decline an invitation. If a user gets too many of those they're kicked, because LinkedIn is explicitly about making cyber connections that you already had IRL.
Well, that must be my curse…
Even when adblocker doesn’t notify me, I have stuff blocking stuff…
M. Omer GOLGELI
when on the third un-replied to email asking for a meeting i told one of these sales droids that i had no interest in receiving spam and didn't he get the hint when i didn't reply twice he said "i'm just trying to help".
(i said, at least be honest about it. you're trying to sell me your stuff and mostly help yourself. and complained to linked in about it -- they have a report-spam-or-scam link. i have no idea what they do with it.)
In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.1812111157380.6800@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.
LinkedIn has been spamming since they started. I've got samples sent
to me, to mailing lists, to role accounts, to never-existed addresses,
to spamtraps, to all kinds of places. My recommendation remains to
permanently blacklist them in every mail system you have authority over.
---rsk
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.
Permanent Solution: Get rid of LinkedIn (whatever the hillbilly a Linkedin is)
I initially created my LinkedIn profile specifically to say I want zero invitations. At the time there was no other way to make LinkedIn /not/ send the invitations. Well, no way that LinkedIn provided. Email filters are a wonderful thing.
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.
-Daniel
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.
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