Why Do People Hate Linkedin? 43% People Do (5,313 opinions)

LinkedIn cannot be trusted
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thw worst UI on the web--also LinkedIn cannot be trusted--they sell and get your info without your OK. read all

by lari w on 30 May - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Now no 3 degrees Contacts--R u Kidding Me
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I will not pay for linkedin. It would be like paying for facebook. LinkedIn is doing everything they can to get people to pay for linkedin regardless of how little ... read all

by eric walters on 30 May - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
of the stupid endorsement system - that's why I am
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of the stupid endorsement system - that's why I am building Hello Skills - check it out here - getstarted.helloskills.com read all

by Alex on 30 May - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
C-Level Job Seekers Left Out at LinkedIn
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I used to love LinkedIn when they had a great feature of sending me "Jobs I may be interested in" on a weekly basis. They decided that as soon as ... read all

by dvogel001 on 27 May - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
THEY CATEGORIZE YOU INTO ANOTHER CITY AND STATE
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UNLIKE ALL THE OTHER WEBSITES IN THE WORLD, YOU CANT EVEN FIND YOUR CITY BECAUSE THEY GROUP YOU INTO THEIR STUPID GROUPS WHICH ARE THE NEAREST LARGER CITY. FOR EXAMPLE ... read all

by Fluffy on 22 May - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag

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CRAPPY CUSTOMER SERVICE
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Crappy company altogether. They don't care what people want. read all

by Fluffy on 22 May - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
retarded 200KB ODF resume quota
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they have a retarded 200KB quota on PDF CVs, if you ever tried to downsize a 1 page PDF file created in Word you will know what i mean. It's ... read all

by peterW on 10 May - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag

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they have retarded quota of 200KB per resume - if
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they have retarded quota of 200KB per resume - if you tried to downsize the file in Word you know what I mean -it's practically impossible to go below 200KB ... read all

by peterW on 10 May - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Closing LinkedIn after 5 years of nothing.
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If you give too much information on LinkedIn it will be used against you. Recruitment companies are using LinkedIn to filter and reject job candidates before any contact. I have ... read all

by Licant on 10 Apr - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
don't bother wasting your time
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it just sucks, the point to get a ton of connections and brag about it. tried to get a job, was told to F**k off by my so called "connections" read all

by billy bob j on 02 Apr - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Worthless... unless you have stock options...
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Linkedin has never gotten me or anyone I know a job. I have applied to about 20 in the last two years without so much as a follow-up, an email, ... read all

by Biff T on 22 Mar - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Terrible to users
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Their customer service is garbage. They spam your inbox even if you "unsub." You can't block threatening people. There's nothing "work worthy" to file a resume for. I've been on ... read all

by mehhhh on 15 Mar - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Clutter and confusion
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It's cluttered and confusing. Too many links, buttons, ads, messages, settings, groups, discussions, invitations. 90% of it is useless. And, worse, I get too many emails in my regular email ... read all

by Marmot-6080a8d3 on 25 Feb - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Dishonest and privacy killer
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LinkedIn destroys privacy more than Facebook or Twitter ever tried. And you can't block people. And LinkedIn tricks you into thinking more people have viewed your profile than actually have. ... read all

by Core10 on 21 Feb - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
LinkedIn is cumbersome and I just hate using so
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LinkedIn is cumbersome and I just hate using so many social sites. Stick with Facebook and Twitter. LinkedIn is boring, it has a lot of boring institutional communications and pretty ... read all

by Damián G on 09 Feb - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
they are lacking in proper description
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PS When I clicked on their "About" page link because their home page had no discernible information I was taken to what I thought was their "About" page was wasn't. ... read all

by dsme on 31 Jan - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag

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They fail at describing their own service
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Very few people know or understand WHAT LinkedIn is or HOW it works. Even their own About page is vague and ambiguous. ha ha read all

by dsme on 31 Jan - 1 reply - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
I had LinkedIn for a couple of years, I only
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I had LinkedIn for a couple of years, I only connected with people I knew and worked with at first, later on I got hit with recruiter after recruiter, this ... read all

by Steven S on 28 Jan - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
no longer post on threads
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All of a sudden after 4 years on LinkedIn i can no longer post on threads... i don't spam just engage in conversation .. I mean WTF? and there is ... read all

by John W on 18 Jan - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
They thrive on not making sense
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The people who work for the company are a bunch of morons and they get paid for being morons, so there is no other option for them. On one hand, ... read all

by Lucy F on 16 Jan - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag