Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Hill Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc Subject: Re: Invitation to join LinkedIn. Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:04:13 +0000 (GMT) Organization: timil.com Lines: 33 Message-ID: <525519b0fftim@invalid.org.uk> References: <6924f75352.michaelbell@michael.beaverbell.co.uk> <525401ce75Spambin@argonet.co.uk> <933e095452.michaelbell@michael.beaverbell.co.uk> <52541797f4alan_calder@o2.co.uk> <5254fe1024alan_calder@o2.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: GqAcIUbqh27oTTI3Dt5hJw.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Pluto/3.04c (RISC-OS/5.16) NewsHound/v1.50-32 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.sys.acorn.misc:3384 In article <5254fe1024alan_calder@o2.co.uk>, Alan Calder wrote: > Part of the problem is rather akin to the current RISC OS packaging > thread. Programmers' thought processes are rather different from those > of users and often assume knowledge that isn't there. In this case > Linkedin would be well advised to offer an explanation of what their > 'search your contacts' suggestion actually implies for the less > net-speak savvy. I wish I had a pound for the number of times I have said to users "don't just click on OK, to get rid: read every dialogue or web page from top to bottom and deal with every option presented to you. Never assume default settings will be as you want" or something like it. How else do Lusers end up with twelve extra toolbars in Internet Explorer? I think when joining a social network it is normal to allow it to scan your contacts to find friends who beat you there but such sites usually only send messages to your contacts if you allow or maybe don't untick a tick-box. ISTR that when I joined LinkedIn, I specifically didn't allow it to send adverts to anyone because I know it pisses some of them off. But some people see no harm in letting it do this as the whole idea of LinkedIn is to build a business network!!!! Those will never work if we all stay a big secret. ;-) -- Tim Hill of timil.com . . . * supports TFT & shares in cheaper ethical telecoms http://tjrh.eu/phone * has a genuine & spam-proof address for Usenet http://www.invalid.org.uk/ * accepts incoming email: substitute postmaster@ for tim@ ... "Have more than though showest; speak less than thou knowest; lend less than thou owest" K Lear, Act i, Sc.4