Linkedin

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Does anyone else get emails saying someone they do not know has invited them to join Linkedin?

I'm just wondering if it's coming from forums?

[Luanne Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Luanne]

Yes, I've gotten a few. But I know they're not from these forums.

[PigsDad Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close PigsDad]

First, make sure the email is indeed from LinkedIn, and not a phishing email. Hover over any link in the email and look in the status bar to see what URL the link is pointing to. If it is a linkedin.com address, the email is most likely real.

Then, you can click on the person to view their profile. On that page, you can see the "connection" between yourself and that person, under the "How You're Connected" section. With LinkedIn, you can send a connection invite to a "friend of a friend" (a 2nd degree connection) directly. I think there are people who will just send an invite to anyone they can, just because they happen to be a 2nd degree connection without actually knowing them. I reject anyone I don't know personally.

Kurt

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

It's not uncommon for people with the same name to be on LinkedIn, and sometimes it's hard to tell if the name that shows is the person you are looking for. I know that I have sent out several invites to people I thought I knew, only to learn later that I was wrong.

I also occasionally get invitations from a person whom I don't know based on the fact that we might be in the same LinkedIn groupv and have some overlapping professional interest. I ignore those - if I don't know the person I'm not going to accept the invitation.

[BoardGirl Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close BoardGirl]

I sometimes, not frequently, get invites from people I don't know. Usually, yes, those are "second generation" requests that I usually discard UNLESS they seem to be in a similar line of work and in my general region.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Then, you can click on the person to view their profile. On that page, you can see the "connection" between yourself and that person, under the "How You're Connected" section

I assume I would have to be on linkedin to do any of that. There's no way to do it on the email.

& it appears one has to be registered with linkedin.

[PigsDad Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close PigsDad]

I assume I would have to be on linkedin to do any of that. There's no way to do it on the email.

& it appears one has to be registered with linkedin.

I was assuming you were a LinkedIn member. If you're not (and don't want to be), just ignore the emails. A LinkedIn member can invite someone just by their email address, so I assume your email is out on some lists. I wouldn't assume it is coming from these forums, since our emails are not published here.

Kurt

[easyrider Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close easyrider]

I assume I would have to be on linkedin to do any of that. There's no way to do it on the email.

& it appears one has to be registered with linkedin.

Linked in uses your email contact list to invite others to join. You need the persons email to request a link. Occasionally, I invite people to join based off my email contact lists and often times others are inviting me to their network. The reason I use linked in is mainly for business contacts such as brokers, bankers , agents and sales staff.

[JWC Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close JWC]

I am a member of Linkedin and do receive e-mails with invitations from people I don't know. As Steve said, this is pretty common if you belong to fairly large professional groups as I do. I just check out who they are and ignore them if I don't know them or there is not a good reason to accept the invitation. Often they are looking to expand their professional network. My son is connected with over 500 people in his network.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

I assume your email is out on some lists

gosh, you think?



Wastegate probably sold it to them.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

My son is connected with over 500 people in his betwork.

In most states there are laws against that.

[rikkis_playpen Diamond Club Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close rikkis_playpen]

I believe that LinkedIn routinely requests permission to send invitations to your email contacts- and has a feature that goes your email address book and farms "invitations". Lately it is always on the top of the page when I log in.. Probably has gotten thousands and thousands of people to click "Quickly Grow Your Professional Network" who don't realize what it does. Even if you aren't a member, it's certainly possible that LinkedIn accessed your email address through someone you emailed at one time. My hotmail account automatically adds anyone I've corresponded with a few times so I literally have thousands of email contacts who I don't know.

I've really enjoyed that social site, and found it to be extremely useful for business. If you do join linked in- consider joining the group I moderate there.. http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Times...s-159828/about
A large number of the members are resort developers and employees- so a little bit of TS4M's personality is dearly needed!

[BoardGirl Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close BoardGirl]

Thanks, Rikki, I had forgotten about that!!! It has been years since I first accidentally went, Sure, OK, and then killed it when I saw what it was doing. yes, Jim, you could easily be getting invites from that crappy practice.

I'm starting to wonder about this endorsement deal, because several times a week i get some kind of "congrats, Bill has endorsed you for ..." whatever skill. Weird thing is, most of these folks I haven't talked to in a very long time, and often, the skill they are allegedly endorsing is not one that I used when we worked together. Further, I have yet to actually be able to SEE THE ENDORSEMENTS!