I got one from a Chinese inflatables manufacturer???
Weird. XD

what, the request from china, or from a inflatables maker? XD

Just an odd combo I wasn't expecting?
I don't even have a LinkedIn!

neither do I...

I've also gotten my second or third mail from LinkedIn. I looked at the site indirectly and it looks like some kind of job placement site. Considering I'm not on the site and don't know it, I don't trust it and delete the e-mails as soon as they arrive.

danke für den hinweis. so was hab ich mir schon gedacht. :P

I hope everything will be all right!

oh, I won't click anything. they seem to randomly try email adresses, and if someone sees a familiar name they forward it. or something.

Linkedin is a "professional networking site." It's not very useful for most folks. It's fine if you're a white collar manager, etc. For the rest, no.

that explains why they linked from a freelance artist. I just wonder if I know them...

It's probably spam.

it looks more and more like it.

I wonder if it's a person looking for a non fur, with the same name. The site is an employment/networking thing. I have an account there, but have not logged into it in months.

it's entirely possible. "Anbessa" is a regular male name in aethiopia, erithrea, and surrounding vicinities, and there is, for example, an aethiopian reggae musician of the same name.
I prefer to network here. :)
thanks! ^^

It's junk, don't reply.
linkedin is own by microsoft and they are only interested in gathering info on you to sell to other companies.

oooh, that explains some things. :) thanks for the hint!

i had someone talk me into getting my name on there.
i get notices on there all the time.
supposedly i could use being on there to get on art station.

i've been told, and it pretty much agrees with my impression,
that its mostly just a place for trading resume's
for getting 'professional' kind of jobs.

which is kind of like total "meh".
but i guess the person who turned me on to it,
got some kind bullshit discount on something for doing so.

woopie. well at least, its one of the few emails i get that aren't asking for donations.
and it isn't all the time. just when someone who's somewhere in 'my tree',
adds someone else.

I have had requests from there in the past, and some names sounded familiar. of course, outside furry freakdom people would use their real names instead. so it's hard to tell...

your impression is in line with the other's experiences. besides if I were professional enough for them I'd be freelancing in art, not trying to scrape a living being a craftsman.

I see. I figured as much.

thanks. :)

LinkedIn is unimportant and uninteresting for you.

It's supposed to be a "professional network", and very widespread among white collar workers (including us in IT), but it's practices are shady and they do everything to get as many people as possible to sign up - including "faking" invitation emails.

So just ignore them.

Either way, for those who need it, in Germany the network XING is more used.

figured as much by now.

ugh, white collars. :P


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