[Milsurplus] All Good Things.....

[KD7JYK DM09]

: IIRC, didn't these "Social" sites also
: harvest phone books of folks who
: signed up ??

It was part of the "Find Others You May You Know" program.  One of the 
options was to allow FB to check your phone book and e-mail address book for 
people you may know to connect with.  It was an action you had to approve 
of.

People freaked when the didn't pay attention to everything they were 
clicking "Yes" to or failed to turn off.  In reality, it took about 20 
minutes to go through the settings to lock everything down and turn off the 
various options and such before you finally click, "Creat Account".  Who has 
time for that?  Everyone enters their info, clicks create account, opens 
themselves up to whatever.

: I still get invites from folks I don't know through something called 
LinkedIn.

That's similar to FB, but for the corporate world.  I've been on it a decade 
or so.  You're getting invites because one of the options, like FB is "you 
have more connections than you think, let us search your address for 
connections", or something to that affect.  Yahoo, FB, LinkedIn and many 
other sites offer that "service".  My LinkedIn e-mail address is different 
than this one.

Several people on FB, LinkedIn, et cetera use they same address for the 
e-mail reflectors AND their social media accounts, so I get a couple 
requests a week to the address I use for the reflectors.  This happens 
because the default of many e-mail programs is to place the address of 
parties they have responded to into their address book.  If someone on this 
group responded to my kd7jyk account AND they have LinkedIn, AND they 
allowed it to check their address book, I will get the request.  It's really 
bad when someone responds to a qth.net group or a yahoo group and the 
address is in their address book and LinkedIn sends an invite to the forum. 
That usually gets someone on moderation on the first offense.

Kurt