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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.

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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.

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