Comments on: No way to delete messages in LinkedIn

By: Linkedin Sucks

Linkedin Sucks — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:56:02 +0000

This is all about greed. Linkedin is keeping this information to sell to marketers. They need to show that they can somehow monetize what they are doing. Otherwise how do you explain keeping billions of messages at a huge cost.

I think the policy sucks. Anyone can send you a message and then you are stuck with it for life.

As pointed out above Linkedin’s actions rather than their words show how little they respect their member’s privacy. All these words just show how hypocritical they are are and undercut the impact of everything else they say.

It is only a matter of time till this policy blows up in their face.

By: Themilosh

Themilosh — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:30:52 +0000

I just deleted my account today because of this very reason. Imagine my employer decided to enter the servers, find all the “headhunters” that have been notifying me, or even worse, that I have responded to? LOL – Linkedin is a joke for taking the one taboo subject of “seeking work” while working and not allowing the user to cover their own tracks.

Well, I’m just one user – but I cannot afford to have personal information floating around.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:32:08 +0000

They probably keep them on record and allow prospective employers to see them… thats what I heard.

By: John

John — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:12:27 +0000

This has been an utterly unpleasant experience with LinkedIn and I am furious. I sent a very personal joke to a friend while inviting him, but now that innocent but very private remark is stuck in our mailboxes forever. No way we can delete it.

I am considering deleting my account. NOBODY has anything to do with private messages except for the people involved. One expects that deleting private messages is a universal feature in message systems, except for broadcast systems like Twitter, so it is not really something one should have considered before clicking the send button. It doesn’t make sense at all not allowing people to clean up their entire profile, private messages for gods sake! How professional, LinkedIn. Are you silently collecting dirty jokes or something?

I expect a delete button within a month or I am gone. Stupid clowns.

By: mike

mike — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:03:04 +0000

I thought I was just missing some really hidden way to delete messages, so I did a search and ran across this article. I did think that a “social website” would not allow you to delete your own messages, because as others have stated archiving is not the same as deleting. Thank you for the information. Overall LinkedIn is not very user friendly so I only use it for certain types of activity, certainly not to its full potential.

As for why LinkedIn does this? Perhaps it is an agenda on the part of LinkedIn, but on the other hand maybe Reid Hoffman has a latent dissocial paranoid schizoprenic disorder that the public hasn’t seen until now. Either way this really does need to be fixed.

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:14:45 +0000

I agree with your article completely. It’s crazy that there is no delete functionality within LinkedIn’s inbox. I mean, come on – it’s 2009 already…get with the program or lose users to more efficient online networking tools. It’s that simple.

Anyway, great article. On a personal note – I don’t put my real email address out there for any web forum though – so if you decide not to publish my comment, that’s jiggy with me too…it’s just my personal policy not to share my email on random blogs.

Thanks – enjoyed your article!

By: Simplicity

Simplicity — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:58:43 +0000

They have now a functionality to archive messages, but that still is not the same as deleting messages. Archiving is not the same as Deleting. People do not want their messages to be stored on servers forever. LinkedIn needs to get that “Delete” button in!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:26:04 +0000

You guys need to act on it. I am talking about the linkedin people. This is so ridiculous how you ignore so many people. People are starting to hate you for that!!! You will see the consequence in the coming future.