Do you reject random people on Linkedin?

9bits

I get a lot of random adds for some reason. I reject them all.

NetworkNewb

I just accept everyone, its linkedin... I don't care if anyone sees my profile on there and figure can't hurt if more people are looking at it. I did block one person the other day cause they kept sending me stuff and trying selling me on their product though.

DatabaseHead

If they are sales or some weird guy/gal with a one liner in their profile, immediately reject. Recruiters, people with similar skill sets or similar industries I accept.

byron66

Oddly enough I like to follow people careers and see how they progressed over the years. It gives me an idea on what to work for and it's cool seeing where people started.

Replicon

Depends, mostly I accept majority of the requests, but if someones picture is more suited for Facebook then I will reject, or if I get totaly unrelated request from a person in India or Cambodia that works in totally unrelated field

Iristheangel

I reject the ones that are out of the states that I have no chance of meeting professionally, recruiters, etc. I usually add the other folks in IT or from TE

PC509

I check to see if they are relevant to me. Same field, etc..

I'm working on a IT Pro user group in the area, so I'm getting a couple interested people from that. Also, I do a lot of Windows volunteer work, so people find me from that, too. I've found some nice people to work with in the past. From magazine articles to book reviews to whatever. A few recruiters, but not that much. I generally shoot them down nicely, though.

Random people that share nothing in common with me? I've only had one of those throughout the years. I have had a few people from overseas using pictures from someone else, though. Use a cute little gal from Seattle's picture. Yet, they are from India. Google image reverse search comes up with that pic with a completely different name and location. They wanted me to review a piece of software. I couldn't do it. They screwed up the trust right off the bat.

amcnow

Funny enough, the majority of random adds for me are recruiters. I just accept them. You never know when you might actually need them.

EANx

Random people usually get the boot, unless I can see where we have a connection of a connection. I'm willing to give them a greater benefit of the doubt if they have a tech-sounding title as opposed to a sales title or, even worse a low-level-manager-trying-to-sound-mid-or-exec-level.

cyberguypr

I only accept people I know in some capacity. This includes in-person (coworkers, school, from conferences, vendor events, training, etc.) or from the interwebs (forums, GIAC Advisory Board, etc.) I never accept random recruiters or random people just because they are in the InfoSec space. Lately I've been getting an influx of security students and security vendors. Also, I work for a company that is a pretty attractive target so that makes me overly paranoid. The amount of fake profiles that hit me on a monthly basis is ridiculous. I see it on the positive side as a chance to keep my OSINT capabilities up to speed.

thomas_

I had someone with my exact same first name and last name try to add me. I declined that one.

gespenstern

I do, unless they supply their request with some message like "hey, it's this or that mate from TE", lol.

mbarrett

Most of the time, I only include people I have actually met or spoken with over the phone.

tmtex

amcnow wrote: »

Funny enough, the majority of random adds for me are recruiters. I just accept them. You never know when you might actually need them.

I never got anything from them

TacoRocket

My stuff is open on LinkedIn. Doesn't matter to me. I will unfriend if you try to sell or add me after a cert and want to study with me...

yoba222

I'm on the fence still on this one. If it's a total stranger from out of state with vaguely similar skill sets, it might just be a you endorse me and I'll endorse you situation. Easy free endorsements, if you're into collecting them and don't might sleazy, insincere endorsements. Again, on the fence.

JustFred

Iristheangel wrote: »

I reject the ones that are out of the states that I have no chance of meeting professionally, recruiters, etc. I usually add the other folks in IT or from TE

Ah so this is why i never saw an e-mail from you about being accepted hehehe

Mike7

Same here.

I accept most connections especially from recruiters but not before I viewed their profile and do a Google Image Search of their photos. There were one time where the person's photo was used for 5 different LinkedIn profiles.

Mike7

TacoRocket wrote: »

My stuff is open on LinkedIn. Doesn't matter to me. I will unfriend if you try to sell or add me after a cert and want to study with me...

Was able to PM you, the LinkedIn URL on your home page is broken.

MrAgent

I used to accept anyone who added me, but I recently stopped, and had to remove anyone who wasn't in the US.

gkca

MrAgent wrote: »

I used to accept anyone who added me, but I recently stopped, and had to remove anyone who wasn't in the US.

Maybe now I'll go review my linkedin and remove anyone who isn't in Canada, just in case lol

scaredoftests

Yes, I reject people. Esp from India.

MrAgent

gkca wrote: »

Maybe now I'll go review my linkedin and remove anyone who isn't in Canada, just in case lol

Can't go into detail but, I do this because I am required to by my employer.

DatabaseHead

@MrAgent - Maybe we should all consider this.

gkca

MrAgent wrote: »

Can't go into detail but, I do this because I am required to by my employer.

I was just kidding I figured that it must be some kind of regulations requirement or something like that.

gkca

DatabaseHead wrote: »

@MrAgent - Maybe we should all consider this.

You do realize that it doesn't take a genius to set up a fake linkedin account, eh?