I’d Like to Add You to My Professional Network
LinkedIn is getting in a little trouble from the Federal Court. Uh oh for what you ask? Well we’ve all received the email before, “I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn” – well people are fed up with them, big time. A federal court ruled that the emails aren’t just a little spam, they’re an illegal abuse of American’s inboxes.
LinkedIn users are arguing that the site sent out multiple emails to their contacts, without their permission. The class action lawsuit, Perkins vs LinkedIn, was settled in late last month with LinkedIn agreeing to dish out a hefty $13 million to 20.8 million people. The site has openly agreed they will send an email to anyone that fits the criteria for reimbursement, as well as post a notice on their homepage. If you’re thinking you fit the bill you must have used the site’s “add connections” function to import your email contacts from third party accounts between September 17, 2011 and October 31, 2014. Good luck, and may the funds be in your future. (Source MSN)
Social Media is Catching on to Food Poisoning
The 10th annual Food Safety Symposium occurred on Monday and everyone is talking about it. The discussion led by Craig Hedberg, professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health, announced how social media can be a tool used to detect early food-borne illness outbreaks. “In theory, social media works just like other complaint systems: People are sick. They talk about it in their social media networks. And then that information can get right to the health department without going through all these other filters that take time to go through.” Hedberg quoted. Using mining approaches to analyze people’s posts and infusing it into the public health system could and (probably will) be the future. Happy eating everyone & keep posting. (Source Nrn)
Fun Fact
Ever wonder how long it would take to read the internet? Just around 57,000 years, and that’s excluding posts, tweets, & private blogs. Yikes.
Happy Skim everyone & remember sharing is caring.
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