LinkedIn sucks (not so much anymore) II
Finally, after four messages to Customer Support, a woman called Rosa S. contacted me via email. She was able to solve the mystery:
There are two accounts associated with my name. That’s the reason why I cannot accept invitations to connect with someone. As I told earlier in this blog, when I click in the link to accept an invitation, I got an instant replay telling me that “the invitation was no intended to you”. That is soooo mean! It always made me feel awful!
Now, to be very, very honest, when I scroll down Rosa’s message I found that the first reply from a real person (because I kept getting just instant replays to my complaints) came in from Brian F. on April 23th. I swear I didn’t notice it.
I already respond to the message below. So, if you experience the same trouble as I did, now you know.
We were able to confirmed that the following two accounts are associated with your name:monica @ netmedia.info
monicami @ netmedia.info In order to resolve this issue, we will need you to tell us which account you wish to close. Once we close the account you do not wish to keep, you should no longer receive the error message when trying to accept invitations.
Thank you for using LinkedIn and we look forward to hearing from you to assist further.
Regards,
Rosa S.
Customer Support Agent
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Now, with the group limitations (only allowed to join 50 groups and only allowed to start 10 groups) Linkedin has destroyed over 2 years of my hard work. I managed 50 groups and with one bold stroke, eliminated 40 of them without even asking me.
I’m done with this screwed up site. No customer service, no business sense, Fuck you Linkedin!
So this is how we found out that LinkedIn doesn’t know what they’re doing.
When we joined, we thought it’s for networking, right? Simple enough. After getting invitations from people we didn’t know and also inviting people we didn’t know, our accounts were placed on block! They actually “force” you to sign an agreement online to not send invitations to people you don’t know!
Excuse me? Is this a joke? The whole point of LinkedIn is to network and expand your network! How can you do that if you only contact the people you already know? What a bunch of morons. They don’t even know what their company is about.
If I just want to network with people I already know, then it’s not really networking, is it? I already have all the e-mails and phone numbers of the people I know, why does anyone need linkedin for people they already know?
LinkedIn really needs to figure out what they stand for, because as of now, they’re completely confused and they confuse their customers too. They want to stand for something, which is to allow people to network, yet they block almost everyone who contacts snobs who don’t want to accept invites.
Here’s a clue LinkedIn, perhaps you should have a better system of telling those snobs to set up their account in a way that only people who know their e-mail addresses can send them invites and “require it” for those people, instead of punishing customers who are actually there to network!
LinkedIn is a joke. It’s definitely not for networking. LinkedIn doesn’t know the meaning of networking. It’s another facebook. It only pretends to be for professionals.
Hello Sara: Thanks for sharing your thoughts with me and the three or four persons who follow my blog.
To be fair, I would like to say that I have just started to do real networking since I started a Group. Almost 100 persons (CIOs most of them) have joined so far I don’t neccesarily know everybody. The group is just starting and there are already some discussions going on and people began helping each other answering requests from other members. Maybe you should try one before quitting. Thanks again and keep in touch