Deleting co-workers from Linkedin

[Anonymous]

It's so tricky looking for a job and some employers are like "why don't you have a lot of activity on your LinkedIn? we're looking for well-connected thought leaders" and others are like "why are you wasting so much time on social networking rather than doing real work?"

[Anonymous]

The people who are very active on LinkedIn are questionable. They seem to be the people who talk and brag a lot, but don’t accomplish much. I don’t want to be associated with the very active LinkedIn users.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m starting to become more active on LinkedIn. I enjoy thought leadership. Before I started being active I added some of my current co-workers. Now that I’m finding my voice I’d prefer not to be connected to current co-workers. Is it the end of the world if I remove my co-worker connections?

What does this mean, exactly?

It's where people invent stories about their work or personal life, then try to extract life lessons from them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The people who are very active on LinkedIn are questionable. They seem to be the people who talk and brag a lot, but don’t accomplish much. I don’t want to be associated with the very active LinkedIn users.

+100. And they say stuff like “Thought leader” as their intro. Super cheesy.

[Anonymous]

LinkedIn is for work and professional posts. It’s not a private platform and you should not post anything there that you don’t want your colleagues to see. I am trying to imagine what on earth you could be posting! But whatever it is, it’s not suitable for LinkedIn!

[Anonymous]

Block them. They wont know. Or hibernate your old LI and create a new one for your new followers.

[Anonymous]

IDK why people are so mean wrt “thought leadership.” All this bashing without knowing OP’s content keeps women from speaking up.

With that said, OP I encourage you to rethink your position on hiding from colleagues. I’m not active on LI, but when I was lurking a couple of years ago, people did better when they opened posts up to discussion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This doesn't make sense. Why do you want to delete them?

Because I don’t want them reading my content. I want my work persona to be separate from my LinkedIn persona. There are times I want to share opinions and perspectives on LinkedIn that I would not want to share with my current co-workers.

Does your work have a social media policy? Mine does, but I work in a regulated industry. I wouldn’t be posting anything online anywhere in my name that I wouldn’t want anyone from my office seeing/reading.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Surprised LinkedIn is still a thing. Everyone now calls it BoomerIn.

I'm Gen-X. Gen-Xers' pre-professional kids are joining. It's been fun watching all the freshmen come online. They mainly prefer Insta but LinkedIn for "work".

I saw a truly rich kid who's starting in Stanford this fall has already created a profile indicating that he's enrolled at Stanford. His grandpa is a hundreds of millionaire who was a Republican ambassador in the Dubya administration.

Well that explains a lot! LMAO!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's so tricky looking for a job and some employers are like "why don't you have a lot of activity on your LinkedIn? we're looking for well-connected thought leaders" and others are like "why are you wasting so much time on social networking rather than doing real work?"

They are just meeting quotas and never intended to hire. That's SOP in business now for HR reasons.

If you hopped on one foot, they simply say they are looking for someone who hops on the other. If you offer to change, they say hopping isn't their main they are looking for, but standing still is. If you stand still, they want a sitter. Keep complying and they "went with someone from the outside".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one is going to notice they aren’t seeing your BS, oops “content”

I think you’re overestimating the value of LI and your voice

If you say something controversial, you can't assume it won't get to your employer.

This. I don't know what "enjoying thought leadership" means, either, but my own guess is that OP has been swept up in a cultish cause her colleagues might find crazy or downright hateful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's so tricky looking for a job and some employers are like "why don't you have a lot of activity on your LinkedIn? we're looking for well-connected thought leaders" and others are like "why are you wasting so much time on social networking rather than doing real work?"

I have never had anyone to do with work or hiring mention my LinkedIn. It's like zillow. Everyone looks everyone up but nobody mentions it. It's uncool to be "too active" on it, but weird to not be on it at all....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This doesn't make sense. Why do you want to delete them?

Because I don’t want them reading my content. I want my work persona to be separate from my LinkedIn persona. There are times I want to share opinions and perspectives on LinkedIn that I would not want to share with my current co-workers.

Life doesn’t work this way anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Surprised LinkedIn is still a thing. Everyone now calls it BoomerIn.

I'm Gen-X. Gen-Xers' pre-professional kids are joining. It's been fun watching all the freshmen come online. They mainly prefer Insta but LinkedIn for "work".

I saw a truly rich kid who's starting in Stanford this fall has already created a profile indicating that he's enrolled at Stanford. His grandpa is a hundreds of millionaire who was a Republican ambassador in the Dubya administration.

My daughter had to make a linkedin profile back in 2014 when she first started college. I was her first follower, lol.
It was part of ENGL101 or some such class, IDK. She's never really used it. I thought only the techie industry used it.

[Anonymous]

Can you actually block someone on LinkedIn vs deleting them?

Also, my college kid is on LinkedIn and found a great internship through it.