diff --git a/content/blog/2024/07-30-linkedin-blocked-me/cancelamento.png b/content/blog/2024/07-30-linkedin-blocked-me/cancelamento.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4740803 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/blog/2024/07-30-linkedin-blocked-me/cancelamento.png differ diff --git a/content/blog/2024/07-30-linkedin-blocked-me/index.md b/content/blog/2024/07-30-linkedin-blocked-me/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3568612 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2024/07-30-linkedin-blocked-me/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +--- +title: LinkedIn Blocked Me +date: 2024-07-30 +tags: + - untagged +--- + +LinkedIn has blocked me. + +> We first need to verify your identity to ensure your account safety. +> To regain access to your account, please submit a government-issued ID. + +I hope I don't sound too much like a crackpot by stating that I'm not +comfortable "submitting a government-issued ID" to Microsoft. +I presume they really mean "submit a photograph of a government-issued ID", +but still. + +LinkedIn was the only social media network I ever joined, +and days after doing so, +I regretted it. +Other people have good write-ups of why it's problematic. +For me, the short version of the story is that +it was a lot of dumb stuff I wasn't interested in. + +I remember trying to get a certification in the Go language. +They asked me about all kinds of compile-time flags on Windows +that I had never used, since I was doing all my development on Unix. +I failed the certification attempt, +which is okay, +because I could continue to write Go programs without it. + +Anyway, +my LinkedIn account is now frozen in whatever state I last left it. +If you send me messages there, +I won't get them. +I probably wouldn't have gotten them anyway, +since my messages were mostly recruiter spam. +I think I linked to woozle.org from it, +but I can't even pull up my own profile without logging in, +and I can't log in until I let the drop my driver license or passport in whatever database they run. + +I 5-10 years everybody will hate LinkedIn anyway, +so I guess I'm just ahead of my time :) + +![screen shot of LinkedIn telling me I'm blocked](cancelamento.png)