LinkedIn - people who hide their connections
Apr 7th 2010, 3:03 am
#16
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Re: LinkedIn - people who hide their connections
I have 90 contacts and of them - 5 have hidden their contacts now. 4 years ago - only 1 had hidden.
You can tell because when you look at your contact list - on the far right is the number of contacts that person has. If its black and NOT underlined then you cant 'link' to their contact list as its hidden.
You can tell because when you look at your contact list - on the far right is the number of contacts that person has. If its black and NOT underlined then you cant 'link' to their contact list as its hidden.
I wonder if they are all doing it intentionally, some are not very active users.
Apr 7th 2010, 3:09 am
#17
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Re: LinkedIn - people who hide their connections
They must be doing it intentionally as the default is visibility.You have to deliberately change it to hide the connections.
Apr 7th 2010, 3:23 am
#18
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Re: LinkedIn - people who hide their connections
One thing that is amusing, once someone is a contact, even if their list is hidden, you can still see who they are connecting with once you are connected to them.
I've got linkedin hooked up to Digsby, my IM client, so I can see if anyone interesting is hooking up with a contact.
Oh, so who's got the most random connection?
I've got linkedin hooked up to Digsby, my IM client, so I can see if anyone interesting is hooking up with a contact.
Oh, so who's got the most random connection?
Apr 7th 2010, 7:38 am
#19
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Re: LinkedIn - people who hide their connections
I have 90 contacts and of them - 5 have hidden their contacts now. 4 years ago - only 1 had hidden.
You can tell because when you look at your contact list - on the far right is the number of contacts that person has. If its black and NOT underlined then you cant 'link' to their contact list as its hidden.
You can tell because when you look at your contact list - on the far right is the number of contacts that person has. If its black and NOT underlined then you cant 'link' to their contact list as its hidden.
Can I make a request to a contact, and have them 'unblock' me - that is, can the blocking be selectively turned off? I can imagine turning it off globally, then selectively allowing some people to see stuff maybe.
Apr 7th 2010, 6:45 pm
#21
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Re: LinkedIn - people who hide their connections
It's global or nothing as far as I can tell...
