What bugs me most about it is that you start getting a bunch of spam & unwanted friend requests & stuff. I think big brother has been accessing all this kind of stuff for a long time. No, I don't like that either.

If my communications are essentially open, then it's fair only if everyone else's communications are open, specifically including Big Brother's.

The cat is out of the bag now, it's not so much a big brother thing as a big business thing.

Not that big brother is far behind, it's not.

In either case, whether I did or not, this contact happened after that initial join and setup.

and then uses them to bait you. I dropped the LinkedIn fraudsters years ago. They suck.

But it was long enough ago, I'm not sure I recall every button I pushed.

Except for them taking my contacts and spamming me with fraud email bullshit. So I dropped them shit quick and told them exactly why. I'm doing well and fine without them.

....for suggesting that I friend my ex-husband's third wife and my teabagger sister.

Gah!

I too would probably be mad about the third wife friend request (that's what I thought was humorous). We don't always want to know folks with whom we have strong disagreements or past harms, whether they are close relatives or not is irrelevant.

I usually delete them. There has to be a way to change the settings to opt out of those kinds of emails.

That's probably a good approach, unsubscribe from emails.

It's a contractor I only communicated with by phone, never email, yet LinkedIn knows I should know him.

I cannot help but think of the NSA.

my stbex's lawyer had viewed my profile. he is also in my contacts, so they wont let go of him.
now i have to look at their emails w/o downloading the content, because the guy's picture creeps me out.

same w fb. if i click on someone's post, they suggest them as friends. i look at a lot of things on fb out of morbid curiosity. then i am haunted by it.

yeah, big brother is here, and he is def a relative i am not interested in communicating with.

There are privacy settings so you can browse anonymously. I know it doesn't help you, since the lawyer doesn't either doesn't know he/she can browse anonymously or perhaps wants you to know he's examining you.

I'm wondering if this whole computer network thing is desirable. Perhaps eschewing networked technology is preferable from a peace of mind standpoint. So many "benefits," but so many finely nuanced "costs" as well.

i have a lot of testimonials on my linkedin that are very valuable to me, including a few from a client who has since passed on.
same w the fb page for my farm.

i just gave up the idea that i have an privacy long ago. my du posts are watched by my "friends" in the cave, including a local troll. in fact i have the honor of being the "DUmmy of the year".
i enjoying an occasional bit of trolling myself. easy to push the buttons of fools.

it is what it is i guess.

were the creator, a storyboard artist, and one of the voice actresses of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic.

Yes, I am a brony.

In that ignorance, what I'm getting from your post is adapt. That LinkedIn, perhaps like Facebook and other social media, are creating new possibilities that give meaning to our human condition.