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« Reply #15 on: September 08, 2013, 07:45:17 AM »
QUOTE(sandbox @ Sep 8 2013, 07:36 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Many professional people we know use LinkedIn without issue.
They seem to be the most trusted platform out there.


Agreed. If you're looking for a job, many hiring managers view profiles when narrowing down the applications. A profile is a great way to present yourself without all the nervousness of a job interview and then afterwards remembering that you forgot to say something you'd wanted to say. Also, at one point, I needed to bring myself up to speed on social media and I learned a lot by joining a few of the groups and reading their discussions. Of course, a lot of the information is bogus and more than a few of the posters are practically charlatans, but that's no different than the real world.
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« Reply #16 on: September 08, 2013, 01:53:47 PM »
I was happy to see this post. I, too, occasionally get posts from LinkedIn. I looked at the site years ago but decided not to participate. Now I get invitations in the names people I know, but doubt very much that they originated with the individuals. I guess once you are in the data base you are there forever. Now I know to just ignore those invitations. Besides, I don't need a job. I have been retired for nineteen years. My, how time flies!
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« Reply #17 on: September 11, 2013, 08:06:40 PM »
Hey Bbob, nice to see you around again! It's been a while! Hope to see more of you here. biggrin.gif
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« Reply #18 on: September 12, 2013, 07:17:45 PM »
Thanks, Paddy. It's good to be missed. I've been busy building a Habitat for Humanity house, my fourteenth.
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« Reply #19 on: September 12, 2013, 07:22:39 PM »
OUTSTANDING Bbob!!! Thanks for your work and spirit! Wish there were more like you! clap.gif salute.gif
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« Reply #20 on: September 26, 2013, 04:58:58 PM »
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« Reply #21 on: September 26, 2013, 05:28:56 PM »
Interesting story. Is that third image of an older, 'white' iMac? Just wondering if the photog asked for a waiver from Apple... or maybe it's from a 'stock' photo site... and it doesn't actually show the Apple logo, so... dntknw.gif

Gosh! A company uses info you give them and actually makes money doing so! Whoda thunk?!

And LinkedIn didn't sell the addresses? And they sent exactly three messages? I almost willing to bet that this is actually written in the TOS, but who reads those? Maybe some people still believe there IS a free lunch, at least on the interweb? rolleyes.gif

That probably explains the emails I got from people 'inviting' me to join. How naive I can be! blush-anim-cl.gif I'm still not joining, even if these guys win their suit.
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« Reply #22 on: September 26, 2013, 05:54:55 PM »
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Interesting story. Is that third image of an older, 'white' iMac? Just wondering if the photog asked for a waiver from Apple... or maybe it's from a 'stock' photo site... and it doesn't actually show the Apple logo, so... dntknw.gif


Nope - it's an aluminum one - earlier than the super skinny ones we have now, but definitely not the white model, which was white and shiny on the back. Note the keyboard and mouse as well. wink.gif

Tsk, tsk, Jim. We're going to have to send you back to Apple Model Identification School, tout de suite! eek2.gif
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« Reply #23 on: September 26, 2013, 07:41:07 PM »
I received exactly 3 e.mails "from" a guy I worked with in the Goodrich lab about 40 years ago.
To join him on LinkedIn.

I've seen him several times since we both retired a few years ago.

From that article rgray referenced, they say "up to 3".

So does that mean I won't receive any more?

I did not download any of them, but deleted them from my Pop-Server.

A couple of years ago, another Goodrich retiree sent me "invites".

I called him and asked about it, and he knew nothing about it.

Anyway, that's my story.

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« Reply #24 on: September 26, 2013, 10:38:23 PM »
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Are you sure you're in Toronto? Sounds more like Ontario (and I'm not talking about the one on the left coast)! wink.gif

I have a 2011 aluminum iMac but the back is not dark like the one in the image. That one must be the model between mine and the non-fat one. laugh.gif

I'm with you, Jack, no need for any 'work links/networking' for me, either. But, thanks to rgray, I now know why I got those three from the same person. I thought it also strange that he would be sending them since he was also retired! wacko.gif
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« Reply #25 on: September 27, 2013, 06:20:29 AM »
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Are you sure you're in Toronto? Sounds more like Ontario (and I'm not talking about the one on the left coast)!


You do realise that Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario in Canada? ? ? ?  wallbash.gif
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« Reply #26 on: September 27, 2013, 07:40:59 AM »
I just hate the name - it doesn't say itself in my head.  Sounds like something from LOTR where some elves live.  The ones with computers.

For me, I am a member but it is more because I keep forgetting to cancel it (free version).

Though I did get an email from my old boss of 25 years ago so that was a laugh.

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« Reply #27 on: September 27, 2013, 08:07:54 AM »
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QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Sep 26 2013, 11:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
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Are you sure you're in Toronto? Sounds more like Ontario (and I'm not talking about the one on the left coast)!


You do realise that Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario in Canada? ? ? ?  wallbash.gif


From my history class - so many years ago we still thought we had an empire - seem to remember Quebec is the French-language area and that there was a battle there, though can't remember much about the rest of it. However, the word 'heights' is lurking in the back of my mind.

Blast - I'm going to end up on Google again  whistling.gif

And we do seem to have wandered w-a-a-a-a-a-y offtopic.gif Sorry!
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« Reply #28 on: September 27, 2013, 10:53:40 AM »
Obviously, I should have used "Quebec" instead of "Ontario." All I know of Canada is a less than day trip to the Canadian part of Glacier National Park, a few layovers at the airport hotel at Toronto (I think) and too many cold days in Winnipeg in the Winter! And all that was as much as 50 years ago! Oh, I have landed at Goose Bay a few times, also. My travels to Canada have been too few and too long ago!

In order to return, however circuitously, to the topic, perhaps I should search for some 'friends' on LinkedIn that I might visit in Canada?! wink.gif HTH, Neil. tongue.gif
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« Reply #29 on: September 27, 2013, 12:34:38 PM »
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And we do seem to have wandered w-a-a-a-a-a-y  offtopic.gif  Sorry!

I'm quite alright with that!  I'm getting more from this than I got from my original topic!  

I'm reminded of a History Channel thing I recently watched about the OK Corral; how Wyatt Earp was brothel owner and cold-blooded murderer who only wanted to a successful businessman.  I'm sure that the LinkedIn crowd just want to have a successful social networking site and not every step they take may seem to be in the correct direction!   Devilish2.gif
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