Connection Request or Lucky Star?
It has been a while since receiving a fake connection request. Some are shaky and I give them the benefit. This one is from a Pharmacy Director. That could be her job. The picture from the side with a demure look on her face- I remember Madonna making a similar pose.
You look one way in a photo session. That is a place to be provocative. A LinkedIn profile picture should be of your face and straight on. One man has a photo where he is pointed at an angle. No matter what value he brings in his posts, the picture makes him look untrustworthy.
Not a good first impression. I don't want to be given the side eye every time he posts. As for the topic of what I hope is the last fake profile article of the year; it might be an actual person.
I always laughed in ads for escorts where the disclaimer "Actual Model" was used. Yes, the woman in the picture was paid to pose. That does not mean she will come to your door. I never patronized that business.
If someone reminds me of deceptive practices, why connect? There are no mutual connections. That is not a good sign. Why would she pick me out of the blue?
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There are still too many bots on this site. No matter how many hundreds of millions of accounts this site allegedly has (the number never falls) there are still obvious fake profiles. I would rather have a handful of true connections than ten thousand phonies.
Curate your network. No one is impressed if you collect names. There are celebrities with millions of Instagram followers and it does nothing for me. I am not on Instagram.
Chances are there would be fakes there. I don't receive as many fake requests on Facebook. Say what you will about the site that is NOT LINKEDIN! No one brags about how many connections they have and I have not received a fake request in a long time there.
There are women trying to get me to their WhatsApp- can't you communicate on the site where you requested to connect? If she were real, yes. The frequency of obvious fakes is lower. One is too many. Connect with people you would want to meet in life.
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1 年The amount of fake accounts on [in] these days is truly astounding Thomas Jackson. Sometimes you can smell them from a mile away. other times you don't realize it until you get hit with the pitch.