To: JennysCool
That happened to me. LinkedIn sent invitations to everyone I had ever sent an EMAIL from my google account. I still don’t understand how it happened.
14 posted on
08/04/2014 2:48:05 PM PDT by
DManA
To: DManA
Makes sense. My husband has a gmail account. When I was receiving the FB invites, I did not have a gmail account.
To: DManA; SamAdams76
22 posted on
08/04/2014 2:58:13 PM PDT by
JennysCool
(My hypocrisy goes only so far)
To: DManA
LinkedIn sent invitations to everyone I had ever sent an EMAIL from my google account.There's your problem right there..."google".
30 posted on
08/04/2014 3:08:34 PM PDT by
Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
To: DManA
>> LinkedIn sent invitations to everyone I had ever sent an EMAIL from my google account. I still don’t understand how it happened. <<
Me too. LinkedIn default settings sets permission to access your Gmail contacts. You have to proactively disable this setting.
Worse than that I know of people who got invitations from NOT even in my contacts. Somehow LinkedIn can find out people who you never emailed directly but might be on the same distribution list and send them invitations. There is another setting in Gmail that you can set to decouple Gmail from third party applications.
See below link.
Account Permissions - list of third-party sites and applications
36 posted on
08/04/2014 3:39:55 PM PDT by
Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: DManA
If you’re a member, the home screen has a link with something along the lines of “find your friends”. It prompts for a gmail ID & password then pulls all your contacts. I almost got suckered by it into spamming everyone I know but hesitated when the password prompt came up.
FWIW LinkIn is only slightly less useless than Facebook.
39 posted on
08/04/2014 4:17:10 PM PDT by
Squawk 8888
(Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
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