A colleague of mine pretty much came unglued when LinkedIn came up with friend links he did not supply (he had not used the address book surfing feature). He actually contacted a rep and had a back and forth argument: "You opened my address book without my permission," "No, we did not."
I'm fairly sure that people are not thinking through the ramifications of giving _anyone_ else _any_ data online. This seems to be a similar learning curve as those who are finding their offline shenanigans haunting them later in online life.
And it seems quite a business opportunity to offer "reputation clean-up" services, maybe similar to the "credit clean-up" services existing now.
I am aware of an instance of a non-refundable charge of $1200.00 and the reply of "there is nothing we can do in your case."
I'm fairly sure that people are not thinking through the ramifications of giving _anyone_ else _any_ data online. This seems to be a similar learning curve as those who are finding their offline shenanigans haunting them later in online life.
And it seems quite a business opportunity to offer "reputation clean-up" services, maybe similar to the "credit clean-up" services existing now.
I am aware of an instance of a non-refundable charge of $1200.00 and the reply of "there is nothing we can do in your case."