The most creepy thing that happened to me was this:
I was searching for a new job, I applied for one and would like to know more about the company.
I wanted to look at the employees at linkedin, so I needed a profile.
I knew linkedin has a very bad reputation, so I created a new fake email to use for signing up so they could not harvest my address book etc.
At the time I had to take a "Alchohol and responsibility" course mandated by the state because I was caught with a 0.52 promille one morning where 0.5 was the maxium allowed limit.
Some time went by and I dont remember why, but I looked up myself on linkedin- and there on my profile was a box with "People who looked at X also frequently looks at Y"
In that box there was ONE person, the women that was giving the "alchohol and responsibily" courses - her title was "Alcohol and responsibility teacher in MYHOMETOWN"
FUCK!
I used a fresh created gmail account, I did not install any "apps"-did not give it any information besides my name.
That was really creepy and I am never touching linkedin again!
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The most creepy thing that happened to me was this:
I was searching for a new job, I applied for one and would like to know more about the company. I wanted to look at the employees at linkedin, so I needed a profile.
I knew linkedin has a very bad reputation, so I created a new fake email to use for signing up so they could not harvest my address book etc.
At the time I had to take a "Alchohol and responsibility" course mandated by the state because I was caught with a 0.52 promille one morning where 0.5 was the maxium allowed limit.
Some time went by and I dont remember why, but I looked up myself on linkedin- and there on my profile was a box with "People who looked at X also frequently looks at Y"
In that box there was ONE person, the women that was giving the "alchohol and responsibily" courses - her title was "Alcohol and responsibility teacher in MYHOMETOWN"
FUCK!
I used a fresh created gmail account, I did not install any "apps"-did not give it any information besides my name. That was really creepy and I am never touching linkedin again!