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I have had the same experience after deleting my account several years ago (for different reasons). I do keep wondering if it will pop up as an issue, so I'm ve

I have had the same experience after deleting my account several years ago (for different reasons). I do keep wondering if it will pop up as an issue, so I'm very curious about other people's experiences when not participating in LinkedIn.

reustle 10y ago
My solution to the problem was to simply "connect" with every recruiter and friend on linkedin until I hit the "500+" connections tier, then disabled all forms of notifications from the site. Now my profile is very much idle, but when any business-type person looks me up, I still have a presence of sorts.
- tamana 10y ago
  You could just filter the mail to spam and save all the effort.
colinbartlett 10y ago
I had a LinkedIn account ages ago but found it useless and chock full of recruiter spam. It was the first of all my social networks to go. I am always astonished when I hear phrases like "it's required". Really? By whom? I'm glad to hear there are other people out there who don't have it, because all I hear about is the other side: People bemoaning LinkedIn's existence but parroting this idea that their professional career would be all but ruined without it. I just cannot understand this, but I always feel like I must be naive or living in a tech bubble, or just outside the mainstream. Do people really hurt their job prospects without LinkedIn? (Or did they when this was written in 2013?)
- LargeCompanies 10y ago
  We're u getting 100s a week? I don't understand fellow coders who view recruiters as a nuisance when u can use them to get a way better deal on your next gig. With my LinkedIn I am vague re: where I currently work and provide them all with my spam contact info(spam email and spam google voice number that is a voicemail box which messages go to my email). Maybe it's the volume of recruiters? I get ten a week and enjoy seeing what they can do for me.
  - bonzini 10y ago
    I'm getting maybe one a month, but I specified clearly that I'm not looking for career opportunities. Either it's from always the same companies (Amazon and ARM are 80% of it) that won't let me work from home or it's completely outside my domain (web stuff---good companies to work for, but I work on the kernel not on web back-ends). I did apply for my current job through LinkedIn, that's the only reason why I haven't deleted the profile. That said it was my first job, seven years after I would be able to find another job just through email if I needed one.

reustle 10y ago

My solution to the problem was to simply "connect" with every recruiter and friend on linkedin until I hit the "500+" connections tier, then disabled all forms of notifications from the site. Now my profile is very much idle, but when any business-type person looks me up, I still have a presence of sorts.

tamana 10y ago
You could just filter the mail to spam and save all the effort.

colinbartlett 10y ago

I had a LinkedIn account ages ago but found it useless and chock full of recruiter spam. It was the first of all my social networks to go. I am always astonished when I hear phrases like "it's required". Really? By whom? I'm glad to hear there are other people out there who don't have it, because all I hear about is the other side: People bemoaning LinkedIn's existence but parroting this idea that their professional career would be all but ruined without it. I just cannot understand this, but I always feel like I must be naive or living in a tech bubble, or just outside the mainstream. Do people really hurt their job prospects without LinkedIn? (Or did they when this was written in 2013?)

LargeCompanies 10y ago
We're u getting 100s a week? I don't understand fellow coders who view recruiters as a nuisance when u can use them to get a way better deal on your next gig. With my LinkedIn I am vague re: where I currently work and provide them all with my spam contact info(spam email and spam google voice number that is a voicemail box which messages go to my email). Maybe it's the volume of recruiters? I get ten a week and enjoy seeing what they can do for me.
- bonzini 10y ago
  I'm getting maybe one a month, but I specified clearly that I'm not looking for career opportunities. Either it's from always the same companies (Amazon and ARM are 80% of it) that won't let me work from home or it's completely outside my domain (web stuff---good companies to work for, but I work on the kernel not on web back-ends). I did apply for my current job through LinkedIn, that's the only reason why I haven't deleted the profile. That said it was my first job, seven years after I would be able to find another job just through email if I needed one.