Originally Posted by SchnookoLoly (Post 11560606)

LinkedIn has some weird "security" settings.

Last week I was trying to stalk find someone that I haven't spoken to in YEARS. I'd googled their name, let's say it was Joe Smith... the first link was for LinkedIn. I clicked it, then LinkedIn just gave me the page "Joe S. Upgrade to see full name and profile!" and I couldn't see any of Joe's profile. Boo. I tried a few ways to get around it, but gave up.

A few hours later, I decided to try something else - searched for him using LinkedIn's normal search function instead of Google, and bam, full profile, right up in front of me, including the full name.

Genius, LinkedIn. Well done.

Originally Posted by JamesM (Post 11560685)

An individual can never really hide from anyone on LinkedIn.

Originally Posted by nldfc (Post 11560734)

An acquaintance of mine showed up as one of the three people I should get in touch with today on Linkedin.

I guess he is in my address book. I haven't exchanged an email with him in at least 10 years and probably never directly..he would have been in a group email message for my adult football team.

I ran into him on Saturday. I don't think I've seen him in about 7 or 8 years. He has no common Linkedin contacts with me.

Any explanation for this?

Originally Posted by JamesM (Post 11560926)

Maybe, after he saw you, he typed your name into linkedin?

Originally Posted by JamesM (Post 11560926)

Maybe, after he saw you, he typed your name into linkedin?

Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat (Post 11571039)

The difference between Linked In and Facebook in my opinion is that increasingly, professionally, you need to have a public, Linked In profile. Facebook for me at least, is about privately sharing stuff with friends/family. Of course you can, as many do, choose to live your life publically on FB and share the selfies, drunken ramblings and minutae of your life will all. But you'd be an idiot or a millennial to do so.;)

Originally Posted by Souvy (Post 11571051)

I have no use for Facebook. I use email or the phone (neither of which cost me a cent).

Linkedin is useful. I get lots of work-related emails from people I've never heard of. Linkedin is my first port of call. I work on the assumption that, if the person is connected to someone I know well, the due diligence has been done for me.

Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat (Post 11571060)

Oh I'm sure there is some facebook group for paintroller nipple abusers that you'd profit from joining.

Agree largely about LI and people that are connected to someone you know but it's not an infallible rule. I received a network request from some random marketing person that was linked to a former colleague of mine today. I didn't need to participate in "a virtual community of whatever" which is what their profile talked about so hit the big X button instead.

Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat (Post 11571039)

The difference between Linked In and Facebook in my opinion is that increasingly, professionally, you need to have a public, Linked In profile. Facebook for me at least, is about privately sharing stuff with friends/family. Of course you can, as many do, choose to live your life publically on FB and share the selfies, drunken ramblings and minutae of your life will all. But you'd be an idiot or a millennial to do so.;)

Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat (Post 11571060)

I received a network request from some random marketing person that was linked to a former colleague of mine today. I didn't need to participate in "a virtual community of whatever" which is what their profile talked about so hit the big X button instead.