Not the same guy. If it had been who I thought it was, that description would have constituted a rather contrived pun on his name that you would immediately have gotten.
Your friend, of course, needs to take care he never meets a cannibal named Morris with substandard English vocabulary.
Or he would become the Alaniz Morris et.
Lightnin’, did you try my solution?
I am reopening this thread as I am really pissed at LinkedIn and their stupid, STUPID rules. I went to send an invitation to someone I used to work with to “link”. The system said my account was “restricted” and I needed to contact customer service. I did so. 10 freaking days later, I get a note back saying it was because I had 5 people <over a period of sometime only known to them> that said I invited a connection and they did not know me. The customer service rep said they would take away the restriction when I acknowledged that I would use the system “as it was intended”.
I replied that I was, in fact, using it as intended. Since their system design would not disclose the profile of the person I was inviting until AFTER an invitation was sent, I could not be 100% sure if I was simply mis-remembering the name. I asked them for instruction on what more I could do. ANOTHER 10 days goes by - today I get a note back saying that my name was not formatted correctly and THAT was the reason my account was restricted. OK - I change the name formatting to be EXACTLY the way they said & send back a note saying, “OK - what next?”.
Idiots.
I recall that from 9th grade biology class.
Money. Membership websites that demand payment before allowing members to contact other members aren’t unusual; the most famous is Classmates, which also demands payment in order to view messages sent to you from members who have already paid. There’s a rant about the latter around here somewhere.
Huh? I can look up anyone’s profile just fine, without having to send them an invitation first. And I’m not paying them a penny.
Perhaps you misunderstood some part of the interface?
Part of the point of LinkedIn is to filter out broke people who you don’t want to do business with. It’s a B2B site, not Friendster or MySpace.
You’re right. Probably one of the things members dread most is being contacted from old high school buddies who used to be cool to hang out with, but now would be obstacles in their careers.