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by xupybd 2448 days ago
After finding this https://github.com/Greenwolf/social_mapper, I strongly recommend against having a profile photo on linkedin. It has caused me to be far more careful about my presence on the internet.

In the post privacy age I don't want my personal opinions to come back and haunt me. I grow as a person but the internet remembers all. If I make a dumb mistake and it's published online that's not a problem for me in 10 years if that fades away. But people are collecting and correlating info now. I don't like it one bit. It means someone you've never met, in a country you've never been to could extort you. It's getting very scary.

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You can make it so your picture on LinkedIn is only viewable by people who are connected with you. I do agree that people should be cautious about what they post/share online however.