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I agree with you in principle and in the past only accepted connection requests from people I know as well. However, I think LinkedIn's promise as professional
by ydt 11y ago
I agree with you in principle and in the past only accepted connection requests from people I know as well. However, I think LinkedIn's promise as professional social network has really diminished over the years and mostly functions as nothing more than a job board at this point. I probably have about 100 recruiters I have never met in person in my network. As a contract dev updating my profile serves as a way to push notify these people that I'm in the market. It's really the only value I see left in the platform.
- alain94040 11y agoIt's your choice to add 100 random recruiters to your network. But then, don't complain that you are being spammed by recruiters.
- CaptSpify 11y agoNot who you were replying to, but I don't add people that I don't know to my network, and I still get spammed by recruiters constantly.
- fweespeech 11y agoI get spammed by them via initial contact / add connection requests. I literally have 0 recruiters in my list of contacts.
- tomtang0514 11y agoMe too keep getting spammed by recruiters. And the handful number of recruiters I'm connected actually don't bother spamming me LOL
- r00fus 11y agoI've "unfriended" recruiters I've mistakenly added in the past. However, if you're looking for talent, it is helpful to have such "connectors" in your network - without those recruiters, when I was doing a check on my network I didn't see some of the people I was trying to hire - this was only the case when I had switched jobs/domains.
- rhizome 11y agoWow, how do you unfriend people? I've looked for a way for years.
- tomtang0514 11y agoLinkedin -> Connections tab -> filter by "connections only" -> find the one you wanna unfriend in the list and mouse over it -> "more" -> remove connection
- rhizome 11y agoThat is just about as buried as I thought it would be if indeed it was possible. Classic LinkedIn, thanks!