[Oe List ...] Ed Feldmanis wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn

[Susan Fertig]

I think something weird is going on with this-no one would give a listserv
address as his email address when joining LinkedIn, so I think it is
something else happening with this. I did join Linked in a couple of years
ago, because it was recommended as the professional version of Facebook
(I've steadfastly refused to be on Facebook, because I can't deal with more
than one of these). Prior to this Feldmanis request, I've not had people ask
to connect whom I did not know except for a couple of times, and when I
didn't know them it was usually that we had some other connection and they
were just trying to build their connections with people from a certain
business sector. I do send invitations to others I know when I see their
names on the "others you may know" list in LinkedIn and have reconnected
with a lot of folks I'd lost track of over the years.

 

If Linked in were doing this instead of the individual subscriber, they
would very quickly lose all credibility.

 

Susan

 

From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf
Of Adam Thomson
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 10:35 PM
To: Order Ecumenical Community
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Ed Feldmanis wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn

 

Concerning LinkedIn:

With greatest respect to Ed, let me give you my take on this LinkedIn thing.
Like Marsha, I have also received a request in the name of Ed "to stay in
touch on LinkedIn"; I have also received requests from people in other parts
of the world to do the same thing - including from my son in New Zealand.

Somebody can correct me if I am wrong - but my sense is that Ed and the
others do not initiate these approaches to third parties; this is a social
networking site marketing ploy that all of them (Facebook and the rest)
indulge in for as long as they can get away with it - once they have access
to your contacts list.

So when I receive these pleas to join, I ignore them and consign them to the
waste bin. 

I am afraid that I don't have Marsha's natural courtesy - which I remember
with great affection from years back.

Love to all,

Adam Thomson, Dover England.

END OF MESSAGE

At 20:12 18/10/2010, Marsha Hahn wrote:



Hi Ed,

Thank you for the invitation.  I am not currently part of LinkedIn, and not
ready to join right now.  If that changes, I will be glad to get connected
through that medium.  In the meantime, I hope things are well with you.

Marsha Hahn


From: Ed Feldmanis via LinkedIn <member at linkedin.com>
To: Joyce Sloan <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Sat, October 16, 2010 10:51:11 PM
Subject: [Oe List ...] Ed Feldmanis wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn




LinkedIn




Ed Feldmanis requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn:

Joyce,

I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

- Ed Feldmanis 
 
Accept
<http://www.linkedin.com/e/9f44e5-gfddq1n8-5m/P_rt9E6cd7k9GXhGWsax4Vf2SAVY/b
lk/I2406371573_2/1BpC5vrmRLoRZcjkkZt5YCpnlOt3RApnhMpmdzgmhxrSNBszYOnPcTdj4Tc
PoMd399bRBQdBpIqSNEbPsUcj0Ve3wUdP4LrCBxbOYWrSlI/EML_comm_afe/>  View
<http://www.linkedin.com/e/9f44e5-gfddq1n8-5m/P_rt9E6cd7k9GXhGWsax4Vf2SAVY/b
lk/I2406371573_2/39vcPsRcjsPdz0QcAALqnpPbOYWrSlI/S2_svi/>  invitation from
Ed Feldmanis 

 

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questions?
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<http://www.linkedin.com/e/9f44e5-gfddq1n8-5m/ask/inv-23/>  Answers to tap
into the knowledge of the world's foremost business experts. 
 

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