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I use linkedin sporadically; as a contractor it serves a purpose to keep me in touch with past colleagues and also recruitment consultants
Recently i read an article that i think had been liked by a contact - i read it, most definitely did not interact with it, and thought nothing of it.
A few days later i was 'added' by the MD of the company who had posted the article inviting me to a network event which i ignored... two days after that i was telephoned, in my office, on my direct line!!, by either this person or one of his colleagues (i can't remember which) and in spite of his persistence in trying to get a 'good time to call' or my mobile number, i told him it wasn't acceptable to call me at work and i wasn't interested in what he was offering. The following day I was added by one of his colleagues.
Is this now normal practice, to be contacted directly after reading an article... do i need to consider ditching linkedin, or at least not clicking on articles - is this what paid members to linked in now get...? Access to all users who have clicked on their crappy article?
Pretty appalling if so
Recently i read an article that i think had been liked by a contact - i read it, most definitely did not interact with it, and thought nothing of it.
A few days later i was 'added' by the MD of the company who had posted the article inviting me to a network event which i ignored... two days after that i was telephoned, in my office, on my direct line!!, by either this person or one of his colleagues (i can't remember which) and in spite of his persistence in trying to get a 'good time to call' or my mobile number, i told him it wasn't acceptable to call me at work and i wasn't interested in what he was offering. The following day I was added by one of his colleagues.
Is this now normal practice, to be contacted directly after reading an article... do i need to consider ditching linkedin, or at least not clicking on articles - is this what paid members to linked in now get...? Access to all users who have clicked on their crappy article?
Pretty appalling if so
martt said:
Is this now normal practice, to be contacted directly after reading an article... do i need to consider ditching linkedin, or at least not clicking on articles - is this what paid members to linked in now get...? Access to all users who have clicked on their crappy article?
Pretty appalling if so
Calm down, its no different to your reading an unsolicited email. Digital media allows people to see who is interested in them.Pretty appalling if so
Well my email is firstname.lastname@company.com so not exactly hard to work out or super secret.
I’d be a little more pissed at my work phone number and very upset at my mobile.
However, they only have the info you gave them, so just log in and change it to something made up.....
The call about something you downloaded seems to be the latest trend - I get them regularly despite having downloaded nothing -so I just stop them dead at that point, tell them I didn’t, they are to remove me from their database and never call me again.
I’d be a little more pissed at my work phone number and very upset at my mobile.
However, they only have the info you gave them, so just log in and change it to something made up.....
The call about something you downloaded seems to be the latest trend - I get them regularly despite having downloaded nothing -so I just stop them dead at that point, tell them I didn’t, they are to remove me from their database and never call me again.
SVS said:
Prohibiting said:
One of the tools, called Lusha, scrapes the web for any of your publically available email addresses and telephone numbers...
How does this comply with GDPR? 
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