WTF is the deal with "endorsements" in Linked In?
I don't really use Linked In for anything and only have the free thing but I keep getting emails saying people in my network but with whom I've never worked have endorsed me for one skill or another. I figured maybe they are trolling for return endorsements ( would be happy to since they don't seem to require any real knowledge of whether somebody knows what the hell they are doing <s> ) but I don't see anyplace to do that and I don't see anything in my linked in profile that shows the endorsements so I'm starting to be suspicious the whole thing is some kind of scam and is not being generated by the people it says are endorsing me.
At first it was a couple folks here endorsing me for SQL server, so I figured OK, I have talked about doing stuff with that, but today I got one saying Mike Beane and Randy Jean ( an old VFP friend I haven't talked to in years) have endorsed me for XML ( of which my encyclopedic knowledge is rivaled only by my understanding of baseball, soccer and gansta rap (west coast) )
Anybody else getting these? Anyone want to get endorsed for Cobol, Turtle Logo or Microsoft Bob?
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
