Big Brother is Watching Your Family Tree

OK, now that’s bizarre. LinkedIn regularly suggests people it thinks I might want to be connected to (at least they don’t say “friends with”). Typically these are people who have worked at the same place I have or with whom I have a some mutual connections. Just now, though, they proposed a random relative to me. I wouldn’t say he’s a close relative; he’s a first cousin once removed of my dad’s, but the link is by unofficial adoption (of Dad) rather than by blood. I might have met him a few times when I was tiny, and more recently at a couple of family reunions. He’s a nice guy, and it’s not that I wouldn’t want to be connected to him, just that LI would be a strange place to do it since we have no overlap of professional interests. I would have guessed that LI was eavesdropping on Facebook, and I can’t swear that I’ve never connected the two, and I use my real name on both, but I don’t think this guy is even on FB. So apparently LI is either reading my email or my DNA. Wait …. nope, can’t be that either.