I alluded to this a few days ago, but I’m a little creeped out by LinkedIn’s list of “people you might know.” It keeps telling me I might know this woman who lives in another state and who works in a profession and industry that’s completely unrelated to mine. Some of my connections know some of her connections, but that’s got to be true of thousands of people.
The thing is, it’s right. I do know her. I haven’t talked to her in about nine years, but for a while she lived in Atlanta and was a member of a social club that a girl I used to date belonged to. She was a friend of a friend as was at my house socially several times, and vice versa. For the life of me I can’t figure out how LinkedIn knows that.
