Using LinkedIn? Seen this yet?

Few people asked me to join LinkedIn recently, a site I've avoided like all other social networks for as long as I can remember, and I decided "at least it's not Facebook" (who themselves have now decided to get even worse), so popped over. I already know that social networks can't be trusted, they've proven that time and time again, and now it seems LinkedIn are proving it themselves;

Apparently, LinkedIn has recently done us the “favor” of having a default setting whereby our names and photos can be used for third-party advertising. A friend forwarded me this alert (from a friend, from a friend…) this morning.

Devious. And I expect that you, like me, don’t want to participate.

This graphic shows you how to Uncheck The Box (click to biggify):

http://brandimpact.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/a-box-you-want-to-uncheck-on-linkedin/

Found the BrandImpact blog due to a report in TheRegister this morning;

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/11/linkedin_privacy_stuff_up/