LinkedIn locked me out of my own account. The only way back is through Persona — a third-party service that wants a photo of my passport, a scan of my face, and a recording of my movements (liveness detection: turn your head, follow the dot, so a still photo can’t stand in for me). The stated reason: “unusual activity.” The real reason, of course, is big tech spearheading a movement toward absolute control over people.
Always surprising when I find out people use LinkedIn. Fuck corporate masturbation Facebook.
While I completely agree that LinkedIn is shit, people need jobs and LinkedIn is often the only way to become visible to employers or recruiters.
We call it grindr for business people.
“I wanna proactively leverage your synergies!”
Look at linkedinlunatics style content for the true sycophants that want to be there. That’s the actual target for your smug comment.
Otherwise, your shortsighted view overlooks the majority of people who are forced to interact with that slop bucket. It’s become a necessity if you are seeking any kind of office job. With the literally millions of layoffs in the last couple years, not based on actual performance, you have a lot of decent people forced into that hell.
So speak less of a nuance you obviously know nothing about. Avoiding LinkedIn is a luxury. If you’re privileged enough to not engage, then good, be grateful and stop trying to shit on the less fortunate.
I have had a long and storied career of doing many things, I am not where I want to be, and that no longer matters. I closed my LinkedIn account last year, and I am perfectly fine with that door staying closed.
Fuck LinkedIn and all, but in 2026 the only way to get a job in some industries is to have someone put in a referral for you. Messaging former colleagues on linkedin and having them submit a referral is often the only way your resume will even get looked at.
It’s fucking rough out there now. Having a contact list of who you know, and who they know, can cut your job hunt in half.
Open roles often get a thousand resumes submitted, and since hiring managers can’t read them all, they use an LLM to pick out the “best” folks. Connecting to real people is the only way to break through that shit.
Unfortunately it’s how the business world runs. Especially when looking for jobs. The company I was at wouldn’t even consider a candidate unless they were a) a referral or b) had a fleshed out LinkedIn in with a decent number of connections to know they weren’t a bot.
It’s fine if all you are doing is job searches. It’s cringe when people treat it as social media.
People treat it as social media to improve their image to the eyes of recruiters
They’d do the same through any medium they could access.
Folks in the U.K. heard what was going to happen and chose to do nothing.
Hopefully others see the epic failure and stop these BS “Child Safety” attempts.
Some of us tried to stop it but we failed. Like the people who voted for Brexit, there are more idiots than sane people right now.
Fight against this in your country. It’s a huge problem that isn’t going to get better.
If you give them an inch they will take a mile. Don’t give them that inch
So it begins
All social media sites are rooms in a house, and LinkedIn is the loo.
If that were me I’d just ignore LinkedIn going forward and let my account rot. Its Facebook but with all your shit publicly accessible
Got the same garbage from Roblox; of course, many more people feel they must be on LinkedIn, so this is especially concerning.
Good, hopefully this will prevent more people from using it.
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I got the same thing from Robinhood. Nuts to me for not closing that account years ago.
