From beyond the grave
Oct. 1st, 2014 11:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
klwilliamsToday LinkedIn sent me a list of people that they thought I might know and might want to connect with. The list was:
1. The reason I sued a previous company
2. A previous co-worker who has not accepted my connection request in the past, and whose current profile lists him as "on a break"
3. A dead friend
4. Another previous co-worker who has not accepted my connection request in the past.
My dead friend, Kath Lawrence, only listed having one connection. I on occasion would run across accounts belonging to dead friends. LJ will mark these accounts as closed, so no new comments can be added, but the journal can still be read. I thought it was creepy having LinkedIn invite me to connect with her, so I used their help system and sent them her wikipedia page that lists her death date (and the direct link to her LI account page). It was a little bit of a shock to see her on that list.
The LinkedIn help page also told me how to block someone so that he can't see my page and I won't see his showing up like this again. That took care of the first one.
And then I unsubscribed from all future LinkedIn updates.
1. The reason I sued a previous company
2. A previous co-worker who has not accepted my connection request in the past, and whose current profile lists him as "on a break"
3. A dead friend
4. Another previous co-worker who has not accepted my connection request in the past.
My dead friend, Kath Lawrence, only listed having one connection. I on occasion would run across accounts belonging to dead friends. LJ will mark these accounts as closed, so no new comments can be added, but the journal can still be read. I thought it was creepy having LinkedIn invite me to connect with her, so I used their help system and sent them her wikipedia page that lists her death date (and the direct link to her LI account page). It was a little bit of a shock to see her on that list.
The LinkedIn help page also told me how to block someone so that he can't see my page and I won't see his showing up like this again. That took care of the first one.
And then I unsubscribed from all future LinkedIn updates.
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Date: 2014-10-01 07:50 pm (UTC)On the subject of dead friends in contact lists, I do confess that I find it difficult to remove them from my address book and email addresses. I still have 2 emails in my in-tray from a friend sent just a few says before his sudden and unexpected death last December. If I delete his address I'll lose his emails and I haven't been able to bring myself to do it yet. It's like I don't want to admit that he's gone. We were real-life friends, though we hadn't seen each other since 2009 as we were separated by the Atlantic Ocean. Mostly we kept in touch electronically (and occasionally by phone). I can still almost believe that this is a long lull between emails. Maybe December would be the time to review the situation.
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Date: 2014-10-01 08:23 pm (UTC)