Microsoft to 600 million Indians: feel free to hand over some data

Microsoft's social network LinkedIn has added a Hindi version of its service. File this one under "what took you so long?" because, as LinkedIn's announcement notes, over 600 million people speak Hindi. That makes it the third-most-spoken language in the world, behind English and Mandarin. LinkedIn already serves languages …

[Anonymous Coward]

Hand over 'some' data?

Exactly who are you trying to kid then EL Reg?

'Some' needs to become 'Lots and lots and lots' of your data.

I deleted my LinkedIn account the day the MS took them over but it still won't die. I get the occasional email from recruiters asking me to update my profile. Good luck with that sunshine. I retired from paid employment half a decade ago although I still do some coding for a charity that I'm connected with.

I'm also 100% MS free. Linux and macOS are my daily OS's.

[Anonymous Coward]

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Please! Keep your bullshit to yourself, FFS.

Linkedin is a horrible hybrid of the dating game, facebook and an Adobe sized data leak - a first class megamix of creepy, ostentatious, self congratulatory, humble-bragging horror.

[Anonymous Coward]

Linkedin claim 30m UK users

The UK population is 67m... deduct pre-schoolers, school kids and the elderly, and that would mean that they have signed up just about every single person in the UK!

Except me

[zb42]

I'm still displeased about the many "I'd like to add you to my professional network" emails

I received a decade ago, sent from Linkedin servers with forged From: addresses and a fake

message that appeared to be from someone I may have exchanged email with once.

The $13 million they paid to settle a lawsuit about that is annoyingly nothing compared to the $26 billion Microsoft paid to buy them.

I find it sad that hoping the general public will choose to stay away from evil companies just does not work.

I still won't buy anything from Sony because they put bad software on audio CD's twenty years ago, their $80 billion in yearly revenue suggests that they won't notice.