{"id":7635,"date":"2016-04-17T22:09:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T02:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=7635"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:50:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:50:35","slug":"haunted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=7635","title":{"rendered":"Haunted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I checked in\u00a0on LinkedIn today and found it was\u00a0haunted.<\/p>\n<p>Among the &#8220;People You May Know&#8221; LinkedIn suggests that I connect with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?tag=dad\">My father<\/a>, who died six years ago<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=6485\" target=\"_blank\">My cousin<\/a>, who died in January<\/li>\n<li>A neighbor, who four\u00a0years ago killed his wife and then himself<\/li>\n<li>Two colleagues who have been dead for at least three years<\/li>\n<li>A woman I served on a board with who has been dead for five years<\/li>\n<li>Two women\u00a0in my community who both died last year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This gives LinkedIn an oddly outdated feeling. Quite the opposite of the real-time professional social network that they want you to create.<\/p>\n<p>If you click on\u00a0the avatar you will get an X to delete a person from the suggestions, but apparently they come back to haunt you again, other users report:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LinkedIn is suggesting me constantly to add to the network, in the list of \u201cPeople You may Know\u201d my DEAD girlfriend. I deleted her from the list, but she appears again and again. Is there any way to stop this?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some of the suggestions are based on mutual connections, but others appear to be based solely on email addresses. I could swear that I&#8217;ve never imported my address book to look for LinkedIn contacts &#8211; way too much time to go through them all.<\/p>\n<p>In any case,\u00a0LinkedIn knows that email addresses get out of date, and that people die. \u00a0So why no options to permanently delete an email address from suggestions?<\/p>\n<p>This is a common issue, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/help\/linkedin\/forum\/question\/101428\">complaints on the forums<\/a>. And, as one woman said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While automation is often a great way of removing friction, in this case I think it&#8217;s introducing friction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If someone who&#8217;s dead had a LinkedIn account, you can ask to have them removed. Be prepared, though: You&#8217;ll need a link to their obit and the date they died.<\/p>\n<p>But these email suggestions are people who do not have accounts and have never had them.<\/p>\n<p>So, brace yourself for contact with ghosts in the machine.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s penny is a 2002, the year that LinkedIn started.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I checked in\u00a0on LinkedIn today and found it was\u00a0haunted. Among the &#8220;People You May Know&#8221; LinkedIn suggests that I connect with: My father, who died six years ago My cousin, who died in January A neighbor, who four\u00a0years ago killed his wife and then himself Two colleagues who have been dead for at least three &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=7635\" class=\"more-link\">read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Haunted<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[439,891,105,92,890,202],"class_list":["post-7635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-refraction","tag-439","tag-contact","tag-death","tag-friends","tag-network","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7639,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7635\/revisions\/7639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}