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Delete the message and go on. There's one thing that's worse. When nobody contacts you at all.

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Yeah, I'm sometimes surprised that people are so annoyed about cold emails.

Sweet jeez how low of an EQ you would need to possess to be annoyed by this kind of things?

Just delete and move on.

Are you gonna ask for a viagra seller blocklist next?

I don't know how old are you, but before algorithms have mostly solved the spam problem, it was a real problem. If you have something like gmail, you could try recreating this experience by copying your spam folder into your inbox and trying to sort through it manually. I just checked and I get several hundreds spams every day - most of which going directly to spambox and I never see them. But it'd be a serious problem if automatic filters didn't work.

Recruiter spam is for now not nearly as bad as this - but with enough automation, it could be too. So "just delete it" is not a solution that scales. Maybe spam filters would catch it too, but then you'd risk missing authentic offers...

Too many people don’t understand that not everyone has a strong online presence and not everyone is pestered by recruiters. Yes, it can be annoying, but also consider yourself blessed.

Yeah, I get a tinge of jealousy when I hear coworkers talk about getting daily messages on LinkedIn from recruiters. My LinkedIn is extremely barebones and I'm inactive on the site.

You can (an arguably should) change that by improving your LinkedIn profile. Add relevant work experience, send requests to past colleagues, update your profile pic, and use some keywords. I spend maybe a total of 20 minutes on LinkedIn in a month and receive a night trickle of job propositions in my inbox. These recruiting emails actually leak useful information and are worth reading.

I appreciate the encouragement. I find it really hard though. LinkedIn as a platform is just gross and its had so many security incidents over the years, I don't want to give them anything more than I have to.

Information I post on LinkedIn is open to the public, I keep none of it private other than DirectMessages and I keep those professional. There doesn’t need to be a security incident for someone to access my LinkedIn information, it’s essentially all open to anyone with a web browser. I don’t fully understand your desire for privacy when talking about your past professional accomplishments. If you could inform me more about your perspective I would appreciate it.

Why should he do that? Why is he jealous of it in the first place? It's like, "Don't complain about all the mosquito bites you get. At least the mosquitos like you".

Subtract the LinkedIn spam and there is nothing there. There's nothing to be jealous of.

LI can be useful. I got my last three jobs from recruiters reaching out via LI. I don’t get much spam at all on LI.

The constant messages from recruiters is one of the reasons why I deleted my LinkedIn account.

> There's one thing that's worse. When nobody contacts you at all.

This. People complain about getting micro-harassed by recruiters when others are desperate for a job and would actually enjoy being head-hunted.

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