I've had a LinkedIn account for a few years. Best I could tell you what it's good for is to keep track of where some of my colleagues and friends are working.
I do get invites ever once in while. Most are from people I don't know. A little research usually reveals they're in instrument or software sales.
Here's one I just received. I'm impressed. I should accept the invite.
We'll become good buddies. Ever time I'm in Dubai, I'll drop in and we'll eat dates and pickled goat tongue; and swill the best cold beer brewed in the UAE while watching veiled and scantily clad young virgins dance to their ethnic rhythms.....
Honestly, where do these people get my name...?
I've found LinkedIn to be pretty worthless. I maintain my account there, but I can't think of a single benefit I've gotten from it. It sounded like a good idea way back when I signed up, but so far my account is barely worth what I paid for it ($0.00), if that much.
> I've found LinkedIn to be pretty worthless. I maintain my account there, but I can't think of a single benefit I've gotten from it. It sounded like a good idea way back when I signed up, but so far my account is barely worth what I paid for it ($0.00), if that much.
I've had a number of people contact me after they learned I was back in Portland through Linkedin. And during my job search I was able to learn which former coworkers were with potential employers.
I've never joined despite repeated invitations.
Clients are the ones that refer me on and I just ignore.
Never knew whether my non acceptance was made known to the invitee?
> We'll become good buddies. Ever time I'm in Dubai, I'll drop in and we'll eat dates and pickled goat tongue; and swill the best cold beer brewed in the UAE while watching veiled and scantily clad young virgins dance to their ethnic rhythms.....
I had absolutely no idea that scantily clad young women came with signing up for LinkedIn, else I'd have been all over it. There was nothing in the flurry of invites I received, mostly from realtors and corporate surveyors, to suggest this. Now I know why I don't get invites to their holiday parties. There just are not enough scantily clad young women to go around, which is surprising considering the internet.
I wonder if the people originate all the invites, or if there is some sort of automatic matching done through email addresses or facebook.
> There just are not enough scantily clad young women to go around, which is surprising considering the internet.
Here you go.
She drops the veil (and other wraps) around 2:30 into the routine.
Except for an occasional invite from one of you guys, the rest are head-hunters. I ignore them of course.
But, I always check someone's profile out before I accept.
E.
I'm all tuckered out
and all I did is watch her dance!
> A good sword dance
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> She drops the veil (and other wraps) around 2:30 into the routine.
Okay, that's the Spanish artist Sara Guirado? Does that mean one should ignore all the English-language LinkedIn invites?
Entrevista con la artista Sara Guirado
Just for the record, I thought that this video would be sufficient to get me to sign up for whatever Ms. Guirado had invited me to - on LinkedIn, of course:
Yes I suspected it was through email contacts made.
Couple times recently new (just) clients have been the ones to invite me and as we had just shared emails back and forth wondered about that as being the trigger.
I've been ignoring LinkedIn for about the past year, all the invites, etc.
The more information you put on line, the easier it is for someone to steal your identity. I ignore LinkedIn for that reason.
