I think linkedin is stalking me

[H8PVMT]

i signed up years ago, don't remember when, only have a couple of contacts but have been meaning to get more into it for networking purposes....every once in a while I get the "do you know this person, or this person" and sometimes it's a relative, and I get how they figure it out but today I got a "do you still know mr X?", mr x was my landlord 5 years ago, completely different field of work, I paid rent in cash and he lived over an hour away, absolutely no connection between us at all WTF?

 

[kastein]

happens to me all the time. I haven't logged into my linkedin account in a long time and they still send me "what's new at linkedin" emails and ask me if I know people. A lot of them are the people who I did know in college and tried to distance myself from as much as possible because they had no idea what they were doing.

 

[H8PVMT]

Yeah but they figured the connection because of your school, there is no paper trail between me and my old landlord

 

[ChiXJeff]

That's a good example of data mining.

 

[ehall]

your phone bill or something

two people with the same address at the same time

 

[H8PVMT]

However they did it it sure freaked me out

Time to finish my safe room for the googlepacolypse

 

[techno1154]

I do catch up on plenty of former friends and associates sme I am trying to avoid via Linkedin. I like it. It is working for me.

I guess you guys are in the communications industry? Or are there more than one Linkedin?

 

[H8PVMT]

I manage golf courses, its a professional networking site, not industry specific

 

[kastein]

I'm a computer engineer, but not specifically in the communications industry. I just build the hardware some of those guys use.

Linkedin has never and probably will never get me a job, I don't "create a professional network" by sending connection requests to people on a website. I do it by either asking them for info at some point or helping them with a problem at some point and all my job changes have been due to someone thinking I was right for the job. Whether I actually was right for the job or not is a completely different matter.