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title: LinkedIn Blocked Me
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date: 2024-07-30
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LinkedIn has blocked me.
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I hope I don't sound too much like a crackpot by stating that I'm not
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comfortable "submitting a government-issued ID" to Microsoft.
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I presume they really mean "submit a photograph of a government-issued ID",
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but that's still a "no thank you" from me.
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LinkedIn was the only social media network I ever joined,
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and days after doing so,
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I regretted it.
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Other people have good write-ups of why it's problematic.
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For me,
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it was a lot of dumb stuff I wasn't interested in.
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I remember trying to get a certification in the Go language.
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They asked me about all kinds of compile-time flags on Windows
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that I had never used, since I was doing all my development on Unix.
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I failed the certification attempt,
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which is okay,
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because I could continue to write Go programs without it.
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Anyway,
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my LinkedIn account is now frozen in whatever state I last left it.
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If you send me messages there,
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I won't get them.
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I probably wouldn't have gotten them anyway,
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since my messages were mostly recruiter spam.
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I think I linked to woozle.org from it,
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but I can't even pull up my own profile without logging in,
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and I can't log in until I let the drop my driver license or passport in whatever database they run.
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I 5-10 years everybody will hate LinkedIn anyway,
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so I guess I'm just ahead of my time :)
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