LinkedIn

There are listings for jobs that don't exist. All of my info was sold by someone and now all of it has ended up on the dark web.

WRONGFUL BILLING, IMPOSSIBLE TO CONTACT THEM FOR FIXING THEIR MISTAKE! I would have never expected this kind of behaviour from LinkedIn, never! I thought it was a legit business working with legit manners and had to find out the worst way that they will go to extremely poorly services in order to TAKE MONEY FROM YOU! I have been using LinkedIn for many years and have subscribed the premium category twice, for some months. Never got anything from it. But this is not the issue for my review. My problem was when I decided to try the job posting service, cancelled it after 5 days, but they kept on billing me for a whole next month! Also, the price they announce is before tax and they don't say it anywhere. Seriously, I feel robbed! I tried to contact them by every means I could find (almost a day to find a way, such is their unwillingness to support their customers and correct mistakes!) and never got an answer. I truly had the idea that LinkedIn was a prestigious company and now I feel they are like a scam working behind a facade of prestige.

Obviously this site is very professional. It is a networking and quasi-social site revolving around your professional persona. The only reason it gets 4 stars instead of 5 for me is that I don't know that it actually does anything for me.

Sure, I can network to my heart's content - but I'm not finding job listings there. Sure, I can read lots of industry related articles but I can read those at a number of sites. Sure, employers can read my profile information and send me messages if it fits their bill but they can do that at most job sites.

It's a very solid site with a pretty sleek and easy-to-use interface. I would bump this to a 5 if the actual job listing functions were a bit more robust.

REASONS TO USE
[1] Interface is simple and easy to use
[2] Professional substitute/equivalent to facebook - you can avoid all the facebook drama
[3] It can, potentially, teach you a lot about your own personal, professional persona

REASONS TO LOSE
[1] Not a very robust job search utility
[2] Pesters you to add more to your profile even if it's finished and requests to get into your email to find contacts to add (repeatedly)

So how has it become to be true that you MUST have a professional profile on linkedin in order to get a job today? How did this happen? Are they in cahoots with companies? Recruiters? They don't provide any value or service to me at all, in fact they cause me more harm than good. But I have to have a profile just because you have to or you don't exist. Not only do I have to have a profile but when you list your experience and your education you MUST select dates! Of course I could just lie, which I think I will now and I'm sure a lot of people do too. I feel there's a lot of "puffery" on profiles. This makes it easy to discriminate based on older aged workers. It's like a dating site for business and I would bet money that some people are rejected for jobs based on their profile pictures for one reason or another.
Linkedin uses our info for free and sells their data mining services ( platform profiles) to companies/individuals for lead generation. Linkedin is JUST ANOTHER SOCIAL PLATFORM SELLING OUR DATA FOR PROFITS.
I can see how it's helpful for some members on Linkedin and perhaps they get a lot of value from it but this platform could be so more than it is. How about distributing all the profits they make from our info to all the members.

Probably a little know fact that Whores (Old one in my case) are using LinkedIn to HOOK up with successful gray haired men. Once they HOOK up with them on LINKEDIN they move off site to a cell phone to finish them off. If a victim tries to fight back against the WHORE, LINKEDIN blocks the victim and allows the WHORE to continue doing business via their web site. My own personal experience! Marriage of almost 40 years destroyed by a TX WHORE. I pulled a background check on this WHORE and found out who she really was. She was a WHORE with conviction and multiple marriages. OH, but the way that Whore dumped my husband once she found out I was playing hard ball with the Divorce settlement. I can't believe LinkedIn is allowing Whores to do their business on their web site. They can only claim ignorance until someone like me points one out to them. If they continue to let this WHORE do her business on their web site, then that are party to it. If I did not live in a no fault state, I would have named them in addition to naming the Whore in my Divorce proceedings.

My account got restricted. I'm not sure what I did wrong other than not wanting to put my full name public on the internet.

I have been trying very hard to get support with an ongoing issue I have with LinkedIn. This has been dragging on for months, and yet the problem has yet to be resolved. Their "member support" keeps asking the same questions of me, over and over and over -- it appears that each agent that gets handed my issue, doesn't take the time to review the history, so they go to their "flip chart" and say, "You just need to do XYZ, and your problem will be solved". Unfortunately, if they had read my file, they would have seen that I have already tried "XYZ" (and A through W, as well), and that these steps have done absolutely NOTHING to help resolve my problem. On top of that, they have thrice said that they couldn't find a resolution, so the have kicked the issue up to their "Research Team". Unfortunately, their "Research Team" has done nothing but re-suggest the same tested-and-failed flip-chart solutions I have already proven ineffective, so they are also useless.

Bottom line: If you want to use LinkedIn -- good luck. As long as all you want to do is make connections, you'll likely be fine. BUT, if something goes haywire and all of the sudden your email server is overwhelmed with input from LinkedIn that you cannot stop, and their "Member Support Team" is your only hope, then you have NO HOPE!

1 Star because I could not grade at Zero stars!

Kept locking my account, gave me no way to contact, sent Drivers License to validate - immediately after - 1 hr - they sent response that my account was permanently suspended. No reason given. I had been a LinkedIn Premium customer with over 7000 connections previously. Naturally I was adding dozens of connections I had known in the past immediately upon rejoining - Locked me out and treated me like a criminal with NO COMMUNICATIONS WHAT SO EVER SAVE WAVING AROUND VAGUE AND NEBULIOUS COMMUNITY STANDARDS VIOLATIONS ON REJECTING MY LEGAL/VALIDATION CREDENTIALS!

No way to speak with anyone - at $60+ a month a phone / help desk and an email for communications is a bare minimum - shocking disrespect for customers. Once locked out of account you can't do anything - can't issue trouble ticket, nothing - no means to communicate! Shocking and I am telling as many people I can about their brazen disrespect for their customers! Can't say anything good about the company ZERO!

A muslim guy named Firaz over LinkedIn openly abused our Prime Minister Narendra Modi by commenting on a post of 15th August speech by Prime Minister. When I reported this on LinkedIn, I got a response that this abusive derogatory comment doesn't go against their community standards on LinkedIn. To the shock I decided to gave a befitting reply to that guy and asked him to leave my country if he didn't like being here and can go to any neighbouring terrorist countries. This is not just one example, there were several post abusing Hindus and Narendra Modi. When I opposed those post, LinkedIn suddenly restricted my account.

But to my surprise they even refused to delete my account and related data they are holding and said until and unless you apologize we will not delete your account. Its like they didn't liked me calling an extremist mentality a terrorist. LinkedIn is now asking for ransom and threating me of not deleting my personal data until I apologise. Their love for terrorist and extremist has evolved to the next level. I will not be surprised if tomorrow linkedin started blocking someone's account because they called Taliban terrorist. Please someone help in getting my data and personal information deleted from LinkedIn.

I sent an email with a forwarded email I received from them and explained this Mark Johnson (fake name?) guy who claims to be some exec* gave them the wrong email address. They returned an email stating the email address I sent to them is no longer valid (it was a customer service address - I guess they're saying they no longer have customer service) and to log in and search around the help section. Hellooooo, not everyone is dumb enough to have a linkedin account. I am not about to sign up with a company who doesn't see the need to protect information and take issues on complaints. Everything they needed to know was right there in my email with the forwarded email I had received. It's quite clear they don't care about security issues.

There is NO way to contact them when someone is fraudulently using your email address. From LinkedIns reviews I'm guessing fraudulent use of my email address isn't the only less than consumer friendly issues LinkedIn has.

I'm saving the emails I received and sent, but I don't think I should put a photo of them here. It's bad enough my email appears to be attached to a fraudulent account with a company who just doesn't care what's going on.

If they clearly aren't concerned about these sort of issues - I wouldn't sign up because I seriously doubt your information is important to them either.

*not listing company just in case there is such an idiot and such a company. There are 1000s with this name.

My LinkedIn account was temporarily restricted without warning. I have had the account for over 17 years and have been respectful and rarely active on it. Out of nowhere, I tried to log in and found out that I have been temporarily restricted, no reason given. I was asked to provide my ID although I felt uncomfortable doing it, decided to do it hoping I wont regret it. Not heard back, no response to my numerous emails, not a word. I had also recently opted for the premium (thank God I did not use my credit card but used PayPal) I have been able to cancel my subscription. For the first time in 17 years, I am not questioning whether I actually need LinkedIn in my life. The feeling of being controlled, almost a power trip is very unsettling for me. Reading through people's comments I now see I am not alone. I still haven't heard back, I have never posted anything on LinkedIn (ever) I merely like comments and careful of what I 'like' and be respectful yet I have been temporarily restricted and efforts to get a response to my email has been ignored. There is something about how they operate in a 'controlling' and bullish manner that makes me wonder whether this may be a blessing in disguise. I do hope someone is working in the 'underground' to come up with a better professional platform where people are treated with respect and where they have a great customer service that people can reach out to. LinkedIn may feel dominants in this space today, its just a matter of time before a better platform is launched my someone on the sideline seeing the appealing way LinkedIn currently operates. There are so many important things in life than being on a social medial platform especially the one that treats people appallingly. No employer would hold it against any candidate who doesn't have a LinkedIn profile. So if restricting my account is to 'punish' people and display power it will certainly backfire. I have lived long enough to see giant companies who felt people couldn't do without them become insignificant.