People You May Know

Being reminded I signed up for LinkedIn only when I receive a “HEY PERSON I KNOW I HAVE A JOB TOO SO JOIN MY ‘NETWORK’ FOR SOME REASON” email notification from them, I don’t ever spend any time on it. This morning, for whatever reason, though, I logged in to see what was going on with the most boring social networking site out there. I discovered two things: 1) my employment information is current as of 2006, and 2) LinkedIn’s “People You May Know” feature is damn eerie. The number of folks it correctly thinks I should know but has no logical way of determining is unnerving. How does it know who my business attorney is? An old friend in a distant city? Somebody I used to buy coffee from 3 years ago? LinkedIn, you are smarter than you should be.

  1. argylenation posted this