People in the tech industry assume everyone has a LinkedIn account with an up-to-date profile. I do have an account, but I refuse to update or use it; for various reasons listed here.

LinkedIn is invasive

Read:

• LinkedIn illegally scans your browser for things it shouldn’t know.
• LinkedIn was sued for spying on user clipboard data.

Employment histroy is private information

I don’t want my employment histroy to be public. Simple as that.

I do not understand why employers and everyone in corpo expect everyone to put their employment histroy and education background out open in public, for everyone to see.

If you want to know where I have worked for the entirity of my career, you should have to request that information from me; in form of my resume for example. I do not believe this information should be publicly available for viewing without my permission/consent.

The content I don’t wish to consume

Most, if not all LinkedIn posts on my LinkedIn feed are one of either:

• AI generated posts which say a lot yet don’t say anything.
• Stupid illustrations that claim to explain a very basic concept but the analogies are bad and misrepresent the thing they are explaining.
• The “Insperational” posts.
• Marketing.

I do not wish to see any of these.

To you, the reader

If you are my employer, asking me to update my LinkedIn profile with your organisation’s logo or post something on behalf of you: I refuse. And I will quit my job over it if this is a deal-breaker for you.

If you are a co-worker/peer/friend: now you know why.