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alfreda89 ([personal profile] alfreda89) wrote2012-11-12 09:05 am
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Thanks for Something Subtle --

I have seen LinkedIn Endorsements popping up. I'm guessing this is a short version of writing people recs? As I will be looking for work next month, I appreciate everyone who has proactively gone after this!

-- Alfreda, behind but actually sorta catching up....
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[identity profile] starcat-jewel.livejournal.com 2012-11-12 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Not necessarily. LinkedIn is notorious for harvesting and relentlessly spamming the e-mail contact list of anyone who signs up for it. It took 4 increasingly-irritated e-mails and the threat of legal action to get them to stop spamming me, and then they had a snit about it.

Odd --

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2012-11-12 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Considering that the people who use LinkedIn like it and use it a lot, spamming doesn't seem in LinkedIn's best interest. I hope no one is using my name for such a purpose. Right now I am not using it at all, but was planning to start soon.

Plaxo, on the other hand, harvested me unwillingly, and is a PITA.

[identity profile] romsfuulynn.livejournal.com 2012-11-12 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
My husband uses and used linkedin extensively. I use it some. I don't know where the categories for endorsements come from - they pop up - I have a bunch of categories assigned to me that I don't know where they originated. Possibly autogenerated out your descriptions. If you endorse people they will probably endorse you back, and some are for specific capabilities e.g. a particular specialized software.
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