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LinkedIn Weirdness

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Well, the weirdness of some people on LinkedIn. Occasionally, I’ll make the mistake of accepting an invitation from someone, and they’ll immediately want to initiate a conversation with me, as though I have infinite time for such things. In some cases, it’s an attractive Asian woman (generally Chinese), which makes me suspect a scam. It would never occur to me to use LinkedIn as a penpal service, but apparently some people do.

[Update a few minutes later]

I should add that the easiest way to get them to stop bugging me is to tell them that I hate communicating on my phone (because they always want to chat on WhatsApp or Signal, or texting), which not only discourages them, but has the additional virtue of being true. When I tell them my preferred mode of communication is email, they tell me that they only use email for work. OK, your problem, not mine.

[Update on July 7th

Here’s an example of an invitation I just got. An Asian-appearing woman with a man’s name. Bizarre.

[Bumped]

11 thoughts on “LinkedIn Weirdness”

  1. Check their cred before accepting anything from anyone on LinkedIn. Reach outs in the past were almost always trolling recruiters. And that was back in the pristine days before it got swampy.

    1. In the early days, recruiters were eager to get a connection to your account because in those days LinkedIn shared all your connections with whoever you were connected. Thus recruiters got free referrals with no work on their part. I don’t know if it still works that way.

    1. Yeah, that actually happened to a friend of mine. The most recent two weren’t that, though. One a British woman in London, and the other was a non-Asian American in CA, with whom I connected because we already had common connections.

  3. I get it. People want connections. They also understand that that comes with some overhead.

    I have saved a considerable sum of money because I’ve never owned a cell phone, or a smart phone. I don’t do cable. I do internet, for decades (a couple, at least) but don’t do facebook, twitter, linkedin, snapchat, chatgbt, aol, or all the other ‘popular’ sites.

    I have better things to do with my life on this planet. Yeah, comes off as hoity-toity, but it’s always been much less expensive.

    My portfolio has benefited.

    1. Wow, you are quite the outlier, and I salute that. We haven’t had cable in over a decade. I have a few friends who never did Facebook or Twitter or Snapchat, but no cell phone is pretty rarefied air.

  4. If I had a cell/smart phone, I’d always have to suffer deciding if I should actually answer it.

    Easier not to have to decide.

  5. Then again, now being retired and planning to drive around the country to see all the sites, a cell/smart phone is going to be pretty much a necessity. HELP!

    There is a purpose to actual purpose.

    And I can finally actually afford it as a budget item.

    1. Rats. For a moment there I thought I’d have the opportunity of a lifetime to clean out my closets of old Garman Car GPS dashboard devices (had two of ’em), a car bag phone, tape cassettes or CDs (your choice) a couple of Rand McNally paper atlases and my CB radio!
      Heck I’d even throw in my old MP3 player and iPod 1. All state-of-the-art from 1978-2004. Why own a smartphone when you can have all this for free? (Well actually on 2nd though I”m keeping the CB)

    2. Think of it less as a phone and more of a computer with a camera. All the map apps are great too.

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