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scandal Grand Master

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I think I've just notice a new Internet meme.

I've even googled a bit to see if anyone else has noticed it, but I'm not seeing any other references to it.

This may be the first reported sighting in the wild of this new online behavior.

I'll coin a new term for it - "LinkedIn babe patrol".

It involves LinkedIn's "Viewers of this profile also viewed ..." feature.

If you have a LinkedIn profile, no doubt you've seen this. It's on the lower right of members' profiles and it cannot be turned off or controlled. The contents of this box are other LinkedIn profiles which their engine determines are somehow "relevant" to be shown in context of the current page.

On my profile, for instance, this box contains 10 profiles of other people who work at my company. Pretty boring, really.

For most of the people in my industry that's the case as well - if you're a telco engineer you'll see 10 other telco engineers, probably at your same company. And so on.

But, here's the new wrinkle. LinkedIn started allowing profile photos some time ago. Most of them are pretty dull - just low res photos of bored looking stiffs (that's what mine looks like).

Some, however, are of female members of LinkedIn. And some of those are of ATTRACTIVE female members of LinkedIn.

And that's where I think I've stumbled on the new meme.

Find a hottie with a cute pic by randomly browsing through your LinkedIn contacts. Check her "Viewers of this profile also viewed ..." box.

Chances are pretty good that you'll find a list of MORE hotties with cute pics. Click on any of them --- result is yet MORE hotties with cute pics. And most of them you will find work at different companies, in different industries than the original person you started from.

In other words --- what I think is going on is people (horndog guys, of course) surfing around on LinkedIn (a business oriented site, not a pickup site) looking for the cute girl profiles. And as they find them, the same chicks' profiles get seen by the same horndogs. Which causes the LinkedIn engine to link together these otherwise unrelated profiles.

In fact, I've seen concentration by types. A cute Asian girl has a block of other cute (unrelated) Asian girls. A cute girl in Brazil has a LinkedIn page populated with other cute Brazilian girls. Click on any of those, and yet more appear. Pages full of blondes. Of brunettes.

You can actually see the selection preferences of the horndog patrols running amok all over LinkedIn. And you thought LinkedIn was just about business networking and your online resume. Hah!

Pretty neat. Sex triumphs again, as it does throughout our biosphere. And now in our infosphere.

slim Grand Master

slim   1,533

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Authorized while at work may have something to do with it too.

Русский форум член.

Ensure your beneficiary makes and brings with them to the States a copy of the DS-3025 (vaccination form)

If the government is going to force me to exercise my "right" to health care, then they better start requiring people to exercise their Right to Bear Arms. - "Where's my public option rifle?"

TBoneTX Grand Master

TBoneTX   46,127

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Did someone say "blondes," whee man?

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

BishopM Proficient

BishopM   114

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Linkedin rules! If you are a coolbabe click here :whistle:Linkedin

I definitely use Linkedin. However...to Scandal's point...I try not to accept many invitations from people that I don't know from my business experience. However, I do like to keep a small 'corral' of headhunters as contacts for a 'rainy day'. So, for instance, if a headhunter/recruiter wants to connect with me via linkedin, I have to admit that she must be a 'she' and that her chances of connecting with me are much improved if she is a coolbabe/hawtie with a great snapshot :blush:

:innocent:

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“Acquire the spirit of peace and a thousand souls around you will be saved.” Saint Seraphim of Sarov

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“The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?” Pablo Cassals

BishopM Proficient

BishopM   114

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Yeah, I do have a few hottie headhunters as connections on my linkedin as well. Will I ever contact them? Maybe once I get off my butt and get my resume ready again.

Slackerrrrrrrrrrrrr............

“Acquire the spirit of peace and a thousand souls around you will be saved.” Saint Seraphim of Sarov

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“The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?” Pablo Cassals

^_^ Grand Master

^_^   5,021

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Slackerrrrrrrrrrrrr............

Right now I know I just want more money but I am of ten minds on what I'd like to do next. As in what kind of organization, what kind of work, what kind of lifestyle, etc. I continue to ruminate (i've been at it for months now) and I hope to achieve clarity in the near future. Or not.

BishopM Proficient

BishopM   114

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Pick a direction man....and go! VJSheesh! :lol:

“Acquire the spirit of peace and a thousand souls around you will be saved.” Saint Seraphim of Sarov

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“The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?” Pablo Cassals

 

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