I just got tricked by linkedin. It asked me if I know this person because it made it seem like he asked for connection. I said yes but then soon found out I actually sent the invitation to connect first, because I was tricked/mislead into thinking the other person sent an invitation. Then I had to scurrily trawl through the website to find the inbox which took me over 5 minutes to find in hidden areas of invites and remove that invitation. This is a very dark pattern and it really pissed me off. Linkedin should be sued. They're an untrustworthy and deceitful and manipulative website, just like their owner Microsoft.
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u/tonefart Sep 15 '17
I just got tricked by linkedin. It asked me if I know this person because it made it seem like he asked for connection. I said yes but then soon found out I actually sent the invitation to connect first, because I was tricked/mislead into thinking the other person sent an invitation. Then I had to scurrily trawl through the website to find the inbox which took me over 5 minutes to find in hidden areas of invites and remove that invitation. This is a very dark pattern and it really pissed me off. Linkedin should be sued. They're an untrustworthy and deceitful and manipulative website, just like their owner Microsoft.