LinkedIn is much more serious than Facebook-it is networking, yes, but
business-oriented. I have been on it for many years and have never received any
spam which I could trace to my LinkedIn activity. And certainly my address book
has not been abused by them.
Cheers,
Nathan
On 28 Dec, 2011, at 15:10 , Chris Barker wrote:
> Hmm, that would consitute an offence of some sort, wouldn't it? I don't
> believe that my address book has been downloaded to any external agency.
>
> I don't think that LI is a scam, merely another networking system looking to
> make money out of its subscribers. So far it has been less invasive than FB.
>
> Chris
>
> On 28 Dec 2011, at 13:37, Chris Trask wrote:
>
>>
>> For the most part, LinkedIn is considered to be a scam. I have it
>> blocked, and many of the lists that I subscribe to have done the same.
>> Seems that when you join it will download your address book and then contact
>> anyone there that it hasn't already contacted.
>>
>
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