@scottalanmiller said:

@ajstringham said:
That is implied when joining any site, including this one. ML could take my email and info and, unless I've told them otherwise, use it how they see fit, as long as it's not illegal or destructive.You inherently agree to that when you register on any site.

Misrepresentation is always unlawful. Claiming that my data represents my statements of where I have worked is untrue. You can collect data. You can't misrepresent it.

I agree that it's unlawful but how do they misrepresent data? You fill in

• work history
• job descriptions
• accomplishments in life, work, education

All those are things that go on a resume. Besides, LinkedIn isn't adding information to what you put. They haven't gone on my profile and added that I graduated medical school to make me look better. They take what you give them and arrange it in a pretty fashion. No misrepresentation of the facts, just making the display a bit more flashy.

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Another thing that drives me nuts at the moment is when I go to unread and select one it takes me to the top of the thread instead of the new post. I have to scroll down each time to find it. I do, however, love the real-time updates and not having to refresh to see new notifications is awesome!

@scottalanmiller said:

@ajstringham said:

You are right though. If I saw something I knew wasn't right on your LinkedIn, I could say something about it. But that's just the whole verification by a community. Besides, you can lie if you want on there. It'll be about as productive, and possibly worse, than lying on your resume. I see where you're coming from but your angle is skewed.

Is it? Or is yours? Your view is based off of data that would have looked normal when collected but now looks skewed because the way it is presented is false. LinkedIn has lied and you feel that my data looks "wrong on a resume". Why would you think it was resume or resume-esqe? I was never told that. It's not me that is skewed. You see LinkedIn as how they want you to see it now, not how it was when the data was input.

Ok, so tell me this. You said it was supposed to be the "business Facebook". Ok, so you have businesses/employers marketing to each other and to current and future employees. That sounds a lot like a job fair, where I always bring my resumes. When I filled in my profile several years ago, I knew what the purpose was. I still think you're hung up on the fact that, and I can't say this for certain as I wasn't a member yet, LinkedIn changed their objective. Even if they did, people who didn't like the new direction have the opportunity to withdraw from the site/remove their account. At THAT point, when willing registration has been revoked, LinkedIn can't touch their data anymore. If they stay on, they are consenting to the new direction it's going and again, we have no issue.

I don't see where this misrepresented data-mining idea is coming from. I'm willing to listen. Going off what you said though, no matter how you slice it, people who want to be there will be and those who don't can leave. If they just don't use the account and never remove it, that's on the user, not LinkedIn, anymore than letting a credit card that had been used but you weren't going to use anymore not get paid and just sit there accruing interest and penalties each month. It's not Discover's fault or Visa's fault. It'd be the cardholder's. Same story.

@Dashrender Pretty much.

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@scottalanmiller said:

@Carnival-Boy said:

Connection request sent. I don't use LinkedIn but am interested in any tool that can get me a better job, so need to look into it. I really don't know what @scottalanmiller's beef is. Social networks adapt and evolve.

It's not that they change, it's that the took my data and misrepresented it. Now data that I put in having nothing to do with it being a resume is shown as if that is my resume (this whole conversation started because AJ mistook that data for my resume, read what he said.... that he thinks that this was somehow my resume data is exactly the problem.) That the site changes is fine. That they change and act like we had signed up for their spam and scam recruiting service to misrepresent those of us who tried them early on, is not okay.

This is a case of misrepresentation and dishonesty (I've had LinkedIn straight up lie to me on the phone, it seems to be endemic to the corporate culture there from what I have seen.)

LinkedIn is, today, more than anything just a non-SMTP spam platform.

I agree the groups, etc are useless. They changed, thank you for acknowledging that. Lastly, if you don't want their "spam and scam recruiting service", point the finger back at yourself. You have an account. You deliberately have no deleted it. If you want to complain, don't sit there and say how awful this site is and what a scam it is and how it's not anything like what they were going to do originally and yet still maintain your account on there. Even if it's not up-to-date, the fact you leave it on the site shows you consent to their "using" any data you have put up and that they can send you emails, etc. unless you say otherwise.

I'm sorry Scott. I get what you're going for, but the fact that you don't see LinkedIn as a resume of any sorts doesn't mean that 95% of the rest of the world who does use it DOES see it as either a full-blown resume or at least, like Alex said, a tickler, in which case it's a semi-resume.

Bottom line: if you don't like it, leave. Otherwise, you have no right complain at all. Zero.

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Cool. Thanks for the tip!

Tickets ensure accountability and that the matter is handled for the user. Them submitting a ticket, especially if they can just shoot an email to the helpdesk, ensures it doesn't fall through the cracks.

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