[socket0]

I like looking people up before a meeting as well, just to get a measure of how technical they are, what their backgrounds are, etc. But I hate that LinkedIn tells them I've been looking, at least when I use the free version. It sounds reasonable to do some prep work before a meeting, but gets decidedly more creepy when you get e-mail to tell you that someone was checking up on you.

[jonathankoren]

Its a reciprocal setting. If you want to know who looks at you, you have to show who you are.

Why is it creepy that someone you're having a meeting with looks you up? Sounds perfectly appropriate to me.