• Los Angeles Times, Friday, August 12, 2011 10 AM

Thursday afternoon, the L.A. Times reported that LinkedIn has nixed the idea of turning its users into unwitting marketers for products and services.

Says the story, "LinkedIn users began protesting this week a new form of advertising on the site called 'social ads' that used individual user's names and photos to promote products or services they recommended or companies they followed."

The company said Thursday that it would stop displaying users' names and photos in ads. Instead, social ads will tell you when people in your network recommend a product or follow a company. Sometimes news travels a bit too fast.

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