As much as I like LinkedIn and it is certainly a great platform for people to connect and network professionally, the recent attitude of LinkedIn has entirely put me off. I am actually very disappointed!
It concerns an account of someone I know and her initial impression and first experience with LinkedIn has not been great. LinkedIn blocked her new account and placed it on high restriction without so much as even properly investigating the matter. I wonder how this person's account has been blocked when this person has not even started adding connections as yet and so there could be no possibility of someone even remotely complaining about the account in question.
LinkedIn is supposed to be connecting people and not alienating people from each other by preventing them from connecting without no reason whatsoever. I am thoroughly disappointed by the U.S team of LinkedIn as their investigation and follow up on the case is not thorough. Also they have adopted a very discriminatory attitude towards this entire case without so much as even confirming the authenticity of the account. This was definitely not expected by the American team of LinkedIn . They should contribute their time and energy on actually blocking fake accounts and not genuine ones. Perhaps they are selecting random accounts to block just to save time in proving falsely that they are doing their job which they are not. I was the person who strongly recommended LinkedIn to this person in the first place and now I feel responsible for making this person endure this discrimination from LinkedIn U.S.A. Let's hope that we are able to effectively resolve this problem and convince LinkedIn of this person's authenticity by providing an identity card as evidence though that is an invasion of privacy. But I think that now I would surely think twice before suggesting LinkedIn to any more people. I always believe that there should be uniformity in rules and norms. They should request identification evidence from everyone and not just a few. As it is people in the States unlike other countries can be easily checked out by an online background check and so all the more the LinkedIn team there should have done their homework properly before placing this person's LinkedIn account on high restriction and subjecting this person to such an unpleasant and discriminatory attitude. That way people would not feel discriminated !
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