Stop Using LinkedIn
LinkedIn screwed me over real good a few weeks back.<p>They sent me an email saying "There are 108 people you might want to connect with", so I click on view all and it shows a giant list of people with checkmarks by their names. Nice. I uncheck all of them, and scroll through checking a few folks who I want to network with (5 people in total). Click next, it takes me to a screen showing the 5 people and the banner clearly says "Send connection requests to these 5 people?". I click next.<p>The next screen says "Congratulations, we've sent connection requests to 300 people.". What the flying fuck? Ok, well that's a bummer but oh well, probably just a bug in their system. Then my inbox starts getting spammed with "I'm out of the office right now blah blah blah" from people who I don't even know who they are.<p>The assholes sent 300 people linkedin connection requests through my own personal gmail account. With zero warning whatsoever. That really pisses me off.<p>I like LinkedIn, it's a great networking tool, but they really need to stop doing this shit. Something similar happened a few years ago, but they only spammed people in my address book who were already members and the emails were sent by LinkedIn, not through my gmail account.<p>I've revoked LinkedIn's access to my gmail account. I regret ever enabling it in the first place. I recommend you do the same.<p>For those who don't know how: <a href="https://www.google.com/settings/security" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/settings/security</a> (click the view all button next to Apps and Websites).