Recently, I was contacted by a birth relative who I wish to have absolutely no contact with. My response included “…I would appreciate it if you never contacted me again.”
I blocked this person’s email address. And foolishly thought that would be the end of that. Then this person sent me a contact request on Linkedin. So I emailed Linkedin and explained the situation asking if there was a way to prevent this person from sending further requests.
After all, Linkedin’s User Agreement states:
And yet, this was the response I received:
Am I really asking too much? I’ve been a member of Linkedin since I was invited in 2005…but now in light of recent events my only recourse was change my settings after being a member for 7 years, so that only someone with my email address can send me an invite? And since this person has my email address, this meant the only way to block them, was also to change my primary email address. (By the way, I have no idea how they obtained my email address in the first place).
In the Linkedin User Agreement it does state that they have the right to terminate someone’s profile for breaching the User Agreeement…
What do you think? Do you think Linkedin should have some way to block individuals?
PS – a big giant hug to Twitter for making it easy to block people.
I must add that I am pleased that after another email stating stating that the User Agreement doesn’t just say that action can be taken for harassment…it can be taken for “sending unwanted communication” and noting that the profile appeared to have been created for the sole reason of contacting me – Linkedin said they would investigate further.
Did you ever receive an update from LinkedIn on this, or was their response potentially just fluff?
Hey Mike! I don’t know how I missed this. Sorry! No update.
Oh well I haven’t been bothered anymore. Yay!
That’s good, although it would have been nice — not to mention good customer service — if they had followed up with you.
Oh well.
Mike