From beyond the grave

[klwilliams]

Today 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.

Comments

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

I've had a lot of friends die in the last ten years, and the good friends I keep links to their posts, old email, that kind of thing. Because I'm pretty sure they just went off to New York for a vacation, which is why I don't hear from them. They must be having too much fun. Friends I didn't know so well, the pain of seeing them there isn't mollified by what I get. I guess they didn't even make it to New York.