The 11 Creepiest Things About LinkedIn

This winter, LinkedIn sent out email alerts to the top 20% of users telling them how special they were, and encouraged them to share the news. The thing is, since LinkedIn has about 100 million users, this means 20 million people (approximately the population of New York state) were the “special” ones. If you also take into account how many of those 100 million users are the kind of people who set up an account out of a vague sense of professional obligation but only log in occassionally while job seeking, the pool gets smaller, and those top 20% fish get bigger.

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