How much time do you spend on LinkedIn

[oracleslave]

Linkedin going down the pan imo another friendsreunited.

Revenue for Q2'15 was $712 million, an increase of 33% compared to the same quarter last year; and on a constant currency basis an increase of 38% compared to the same quarter last year.

With 380 million members I don't think it is

[TheFaQQer]

Erm.. How did you find this out??

I did a reverse image search, and the page that had the same image was on a website for prostitutes in Victoria.

It wasn't hard

[centurian]

How much time do you spend on LinkedIn - A lot less when I found out that they were harvesting contact details from my phone.

I had the phone app installed - and have used it from time to time.

About a month ago, I added a new phone contact into the phone's directory.

A few weeks later, I got one of those "people you may know" e-mails which had the name of the person I had put in the phone.

It wasn't the same person though - just someone with the same name. The person I know with that name isn't on LinkedIn.

The contact I placed in the phone was completely isolated in a professional/social sense from the rest of my network (no, it wasn't a hooker, dominatrix etc.) - so there is no way that LinkedIn could have inferred them from the rest of my connections. I had never searched for that person online in any way.

Turns out in the T&Cs of the phone app, they do read your phone contact details - in order to 'help' you build up your connections on LinkedIn.

I have now uninstalled the phone app - and now access LinkedIn with maximum privacy settings.

[centurian]

I did a reverse image search, and the page that had the same image was on a website for prostitutes in Victoria.

It wasn't hard

So what creeped her out more, I wonder.

a) Finding that her picture is on the prostitutes site
b) That you reverse image searched her

[TheFaQQer]

So what creeped her out more, I wonder.

a) Finding that her picture is on the prostitutes site
b) That you reverse image searched her

On the assumption that she doesn't exist (the image is also on stock image websites and elsewhere, I don't think he was creeped out at all.