LinkedIn mlm companies

I’ve been on LinkedIn for a good bit now. I’ve got like 130 connections and it’s been an overall pleasant experience (aside from all the braggy posts but I mean it’s LinkedIn). More often lately I’ve been getting requests from those multi level marketing companies like vector and what not. It’s a real nuisance. I ignore one message from someone who works there that I accidentally connected with and suddenly 4 more try and add me. Is LinkedIn that essential to networking? I feel like I won’t be able to make real meaningful connections now because now my profile seems to be picking up traction with mlm profiles more than anything.

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Are you actively recruiting right now? There are settings within your profile to make it full private (only people with a direct link to your profile can see it, you won’t appear in search) and if I recall, there’s a semi-private setting that focuses on recruiters - not quite sure how it works.

It sucks, but as any social media platform does, LinkedIn suffers from a massive number of phishing, spam, and bot accounts that fill up faster than you can blink. While it’s not a solution to your issue, my M.O. is just to ignore ‘em. Best of luck.

 

It'll be less common once you graduate and have a real job. MLMs go after college kids because many are desperate for experience and struggle to quickly identify red flags

In terms of actions you can take, I wouldn't lock down your privacy settings since you want visibility for now at least. However, you can reduce the amount of spam you're getting by being conscious of who you're adding -- don't accept people unless you know them, you have or are likely to cross paths with them e.g. people at the same college, or they send a message with a good reason to connect. For every spammy user you add you'll just get more since all of a sudden you share a mutual with all of the spammy user's connection lists, which unsurprisingly will also have a lot of spammy users

 

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