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Very amusing. I'm almost tempted to delete my LinkedIn. I turned off all email notifications months ago so largely forgot about it, but a friend of mine recent
by djhworld 8y ago
Very amusing.
I'm almost tempted to delete my LinkedIn. I turned off all email notifications months ago so largely forgot about it, but a friend of mine recently said he saw my profile pop up in his feed about a work anniversary or some other 'engagement' thing they spam people with.
The photo on my profile is from 9 years ago, and my job title has since changed, in fact most of it is probably out of date.
I suspect my inbox is full of recruiters shouting into the void.
- djhworld 8y agoUpdate: temptation got the better of me and I closed my account.
- dyarosla 8y agoNow if only deleting your account meant never getting any more emails from them... I still get ‘so and so wants to connect’ after I deleted mine. Anyone have any idea how to stop this? (Besides an email filter?) is this practice even legal?
- djhworld 8y agoThey should have an unsubscribe link, if you live in the EU you should be able to ask them to delete all your data under GDPR rules
- antsar 8y agoIs there any EU law which prevents them from resuming the spam as soon as another one of your acquaintances gives LinkedIn access to his/her contacts? Because otherwise that's what's going to happen...
- qznc 8y agoGDPR still applies. This is personal information about you, so you can make them delete it. The fact that they got the information from someone else is irrelevant. (Imho. Not a lawyer.)
- antsar 8y agoSure, but deleting it doesn't do much good if they're going to get a new copy of the same information from someone else a week later.
- solarmist 8y agoLinkedIn has applied GDPR rules worldwide. You can do that from anywhere.
- Rjevski 8y agoAm I the only one who never received spam from LinkedIn ever? Nothing before I had an account, and when I signed up I turned off all the spam in the notification settings and don’t get any either.
- dorchadas 8y agoNope. I've never had any emails come through except the ones I've set to come through. Now, on the off chance I do go to their website, there's always a load of new notifications with that spam included in it.
- petitmiam 8y agoSame thing happened to me. When i contacted them about it, they claimed the emails were spam and not from them (despite the emails clearly mentioning contacts I had connected with!). After numerous emails back and forth they eventually added to their "Do Not Contact" list. No emails since!
- airpmb 8y agoI’m just about there too, but I need to decide: straight up leave and don’t look back, or spend a bit more time to poison the well (with a new dummy account, of course)? I’m leaning towards the former just to be able to maintain the moral high ground. Probably I’m overthinking this..
- woadwarrior01 8y agoI deleted mine in 2012, when they were hacked and it was revealed that they were storing passwords as unsalted MD5 hashes.
- rohan1024 8y agoGosh. I deleted all my social media except LinkedIn and this has been bugging me. Its tempting me as well. lol
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoI have to admit I only ever look at LinkedIn when I see an article or news story on it and it reminds me that it exists. I'm not sure how but I somehow managed to disable the emails completely. Maybe LI are actually still sending them but they're all just getting eaten by some spam filter somewhere.