PhillyDude Posted March 14, 2013 Posted March 14, 2013 I met a couple of woman online and after our first conversation I noticed that they went to LINKEDIN to view my profile??? What the hell is the point of that? To see if I;m lying about my job? I swear some of these woman need to stop wanting to dig into a guy's background after one conversation. 1
Barnacle-Bob Posted March 14, 2013 Posted March 14, 2013 Don't you have to have a job to have a LinkedIn profile? 1
Author PhillyDude Posted March 14, 2013 Author Posted March 14, 2013 Don't you have to have a job to have a LinkedIn profile? Yes which means I;m employed so what r u talking about?
Eggplant Posted March 14, 2013 Posted March 14, 2013 I swear some of these woman need to stop wanting to dig into a guy's background after one conversation.On the bright side, they wouldn't have bothered if you hadn't interested them 1
Author PhillyDude Posted March 14, 2013 Author Posted March 14, 2013 On the bright side, they wouldn't have bothered if you hadn't interested them Yeah I guess that's another way of looking at
pyramid Posted March 14, 2013 Posted March 14, 2013 I request full names and google-stalk guys before I give them my phone number. That includes looking at their LinkedIn. Yes, it's to see if you are lying. YOU may not be a liar, but there are plenty of guys who lie or hide information about themselves. If you're being honest, what are you worried about? 10
Djz05 Posted March 14, 2013 Posted March 14, 2013 Its just like googling a person. If you put out any information through social media then imo its fair game if anyone wants to see it (unless you put restrictions) 2
Art_Critic Posted March 14, 2013 Posted March 14, 2013 Don't you have to have a job to have a LinkedIn profile? No, in fact we use linkedin's job postings to find people, it's one of the best tools for finding a job today. We post a job posting out there and people apply and send their resume through a click As far as a person checking out your linkedin profile OP, good for them.. they should check out all the people they meet online.. don't you.. 3
Author PhillyDude Posted March 14, 2013 Author Posted March 14, 2013 No, in fact we use linkedin's job postings to find people, it's one of the best tools for finding a job today. We post a job posting out there and people apply and send their resume through a click As far as a person checking out your linkedin profile OP, good for them.. they should check out all the people they meet online.. don't you.. No I don't feel the need to stalk someone's linkedin profile and have them see that I viewed their profile
Art_Critic Posted March 14, 2013 Posted March 14, 2013 No I don't feel the need to stalk someone's linkedin profile and have them see that I viewed their profile Your loss.... 3
Author PhillyDude Posted March 14, 2013 Author Posted March 14, 2013 I request full names and google-stalk guys before I give them my phone number. That includes looking at their LinkedIn. Yes, it's to see if you are lying. YOU may not be a liar, but there are plenty of guys who lie or hide information about themselves. If you're being honest, what are you worried about? Last week this girl keep asking for my last name. There is no need for a woman to act like she is an employer
kaylan Posted March 14, 2013 Posted March 14, 2013 I request full names and google-stalk guys before I give them my phone number. That includes looking at their LinkedIn. Yes, it's to see if you are lying. YOU may not be a liar, but there are plenty of guys who lie or hide information about themselves. If you're being honest, what are you worried about? ????? Creepers gonna creep.
dreamingoftigers Posted March 14, 2013 Posted March 14, 2013 Sigh.... No, it means she's smart. Maybe she even wants to find conversation topics or see if you click. Maybe she has some weird, picky criteria for men. Maybe she's sitting there thinking, "should I be offended that he didn't return stalk my linked-in profile before giving me exactly three texts prior to midnight. I mean, what kind of guy is like that. Sheesh, men in Philly these days." 3
Malia25 Posted March 14, 2013 Posted March 14, 2013 You can totally view someone's LinkedIn without the other person ever knowing. It's called not logging in!! That would be the smart way to go about it. With that said, if I find a guy I'm interested has an LI profile, that gets him bonus points. And if I see a great, ambitious resume/job history - even better. Like Pyramid, I think its really important to know who you are talking to or plan to meet up with. You need to know they are legit and who they say they are. It's not about finding out information on this person so that you have something to talk about at dinner. It's about security and knowing this person doesn't have a rap sheet somewhere out there! The guy I'm talking to (that I met online) and I conducted a google experiment. We googled each other based only on the information that we knew about each other (first name, city + career) and voila! We found each other's LI profiles EASILY. Really, it's not that hard to find someone even for an amateur googler. It's pretty scary, too, if you think about it... 2
Author PhillyDude Posted March 14, 2013 Author Posted March 14, 2013 You can totally view someone's LinkedIn without the other person ever knowing. It's called not logging in!! That would be the smart way to go about it. With that said, if I find a guy I'm interested has an LI profile, that gets him bonus points. And if I see a great, ambitious resume/job history - even better. Like Pyramid, I think its really important to know who you are talking to or plan to meet up with. You need to know they are legit and who they say they are. It's not about finding out information on this person so that you have something to talk about at dinner. It's about security and knowing this person doesn't have a rap sheet somewhere out there! The guy I'm talking to (that I met online) and I conducted a google experiment. We googled each other based only on the information that we knew about each other (first name, city + career) and voila! We found each other's LI profiles EASILY. Really, it's not that hard to find someone even for an amateur googler. It's pretty scary, too, if you think about it... I think I would have been more pissed if I was unemployed and wanted to keep it a secret lol
neveragain34 Posted March 14, 2013 Posted March 14, 2013 Chill. She was just googling you, it's the norm now of days. She doesn't think you were lying about your job; LinkedIn was probably one of the first things to pop up in her search and she clicked on it. Google yourself and see what happens.
TigerCub Posted March 14, 2013 Posted March 14, 2013 Hey on the plus side - this one didn't ask if you drive These women are obviously interested in you - so they googled you - not such a big deal! 4
Dragonfruit Posted March 14, 2013 Posted March 14, 2013 (edited) It does annoy me when someone tells me what they learned about me by googling my name and somehow thinks that means they are invited to initiate conversation on anything they found. I don't think it's the best social skills to tell someone you conducted your own personal background check on them, then ask further questions for your files, haha. That said, if I was considering going out with a guy I didn't know well, you bet I'd google his name. If you are a woman, going out with men you don't know is dangerous. He might be a convicted criminal or who knows what. Also, taking the hours needed to get to know someone better might be a waste of everyone's time if there's something that puts him out of the running in the first place, such as being married or, again, who knows what else. If a quick screening is at your fingertips, such as with a Google search, why in the world wouldn't you use it? So to me, it's kind of both. Sure, do it. For safety purposes if nothing else. And of course, if it's out there in public, any of us are free to google anyone's name for no reason but we're bored and want nosy entertainment. However, imo, it's rather thick-headed and intrusive to then begin questioning the person about the results of your search. I would limit discussion to whatever he had told me himself. Edited March 14, 2013 by Dragonfruit 1
truth_seeker Posted March 14, 2013 Posted March 14, 2013 Creeping online has become the norm. Just about everyone does it. Facebook, LinkedIn, etc... it's a good way to get an idea of the person and their personality. Example: One girl I was interested in, she had almost 1,000 "friends" on Facebook and her LinkedIn profile had five different job positions within two years. It gave me an idea of her personality. When I met her in person, just what I thought: unstable and crazy. If you use it for the right reasons, it's fine to check up on someone. It's not okay to use it as a means to harass someone. 1
snowflakes88 Posted March 14, 2013 Posted March 14, 2013 You're turned off by everything else, so why not? 3
CarrieT Posted March 14, 2013 Posted March 14, 2013 Seriously, PD - 90% of your posts are about the things people do that you deem negative. And you wonder why you can't find a girl... Why don't you change your perspective and start looking at things a little positively: "Gee, this girl looked at my LinkedIn profile - maybe she is interested in me!" You might be surprised at the outcome. 1
amazingdrummer Posted March 14, 2013 Posted March 14, 2013 information is power, knowing your online date is real is necessary. Once I met a guy online, who acted as a very sweet man with a great job, looking for a LTR. I did some Google research, and it turned out that this guy gave me all the false information (even his name and age). Safety is the best policy. Trying to get amap information about the people you meet online (or offline) before you decide to make it anything further than acquaintances, you can save times and avoid unnecessary drama in future. 2
JourneyLady Posted March 14, 2013 Posted March 14, 2013 Don't you have to have a job to have a LinkedIn profile? No you don't have to have a job to have a LINKEDIN profile... I'm a self-employed writer, and I have one. Ex-bf is a "researcher" (basically he browses the internet looking for stuff he's interested in) and he has one. Nope - a job is definitely not a requirement.
dasein Posted March 14, 2013 Posted March 14, 2013 Wow I wasn't aware you could find out that logged in folks had looked at your linked in profile, how do you do that?
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