Graham Downs on Nostr: Len Yeah, I've heard that logic before about LinkedIn. Not necessarily that it's a ...

Len (nprofile…lvd6) Yeah, I've heard that logic before about LinkedIn. Not necessarily that it's a giant recruiting agency -- although I think unless you're actually in a business or sales-focused role where you want to make connections for those purposes, that's what most people use it for.

But no, the fact that it's ostensibly about making business connections and forging relationships with business decision makers, it's okay for them because if a person from company X viewed your profile, you'd want to know so you could go check that person out and connect if you think your business proposition would be a match for them.

I dunno, it's still VERY weird, in my opinion. Knowing where the traffic came from is one thing (like, "People from company X recently viewed your profile", which is what the free users get), but the premium users can see *exactly* who viewed their profiles.

I still don't think it's cool, hey. If I saw you on Facebook as a "Someone you may know", or even saw you commenting on one of my friend's posts or whatever, and I decided to go check you out to see if a) I maybe knew you, or b) you might be someone I WANTED to know, so I clicked through to your profile, read some of your public posts, looked through your photos, and then decided, "Nope. Don't know them, and not particular interested," you shouldn't be any the wiser. Why would you want to know that I've done that? Like, why? It's just... icky.

I'm sure loads of people look at my social media profiles (on Facebook and Mastodon and otherwise), and decide not to connect. Totally their prerogative, and if I knew exactly how many (never mind exactly who they were) it might actually just end up making me depressed.