LinkedIn

Beyond terrible way to destroy people’s patience with an hour of “not a robot” clicks!! Never in my whole life encountered such a failure of a platform!!! Let alone it’s a complete rip off!! Disgusting!!

Basically Facebook in a suit, cosplaying as some sort of corporate warrior. If you want to engage with some of the most self-absorbed, vapid, and toxic people on the planet, the type of people who would sell their own children if it meant climbing the corporate ladder just a bit harder, all while simping so incredibly hard to old-money… Read more

capitalists, then LinkedIn is the platform for you.

Since the second trump regime became a reality, a lot of its users have gone full mask off in their extreme right-wing views, so-called 'corporate professionals' posting shitposts about the labor government, pushing one nations agenda, denying climate change, whinging about electric vehicles, and praising war criminals who were charged with violating the laws of armed conflict as just 'misunderstood'. Not to mention the explosion of AI generated rot, fake accounts, and worst of all fake job postings. So, it's basically Facebook at this point.

Stop engaging with it. And if you are fortunate enough to be in an industry that doesn't use LinkedIn as a networking tool delete your account.

They enable scammers – There is no where in the contact LinkedIn to state that a scamming operation is posing as a book publisher giving them credence. In other words anyone can easily set up a fake profile. You cannot trust LinkedIn.

Minus100 I am glad they have locked me out. So many fake accounts and many women using the same photos If you get past the fake accounts, then you have the crypto scammers. Report any of them, and nothing happens. Totally corrupted, unprofessional… Read more

organization Better out of it than in that, for sure. Keep trying to contact them; it can't be done.... Laughable organisation

A disappointing experience with a platform that should exemplify professionalism. As a paying subscriber, I was surprised to discover that business contact options are capped—without clear notice and with no straightforward way to manage or track… Read more

usage. In a platform positioned as a leader in professional networking and outreach, this restriction feels both arbitrary and antiquated.

What followed was weeks of chasing for a simple answer—only to receive a vague, unhelpful response that sidestepped the core of the issue entirely. No clear resolution. No timeline. Just ambiguity cloaked in templated courtesy.

The lack of transparency, the rigidity of the system, and the time it took to reach any form of clarity reflect poorly on a service that markets itself as premium. At this level, customer experience and responsiveness should not be afterthoughts—they should be the baseline.

A disappointing scenario, and one that calls for serious internal review.

LinkedIn Support: Where Money Enters, Accounts Vanish, and Questions Go to Die I would like to begin by congratulating LinkedIn Support on creating what may be the world’s first customer service department built entirely around the ancient art of not answering questions. Most companies treat customer enquiries as something to be resolved. … Read more

LinkedIn, in a stunning act of corporate imagination, appears to treat them as unwanted literature.

The story began simply enough.

I created an account.

I purchased a subscription.

LinkedIn accepted my money with breathtaking competence.

No delay.

No confusion.

No technical error.

No mysterious “please try again later.”

The payment system performed like an Olympic athlete.

Then, moments later, my account was restricted.

And suddenly the same organisation that could process my money instantly became a confused village council trying to interpret smoke signals.

Money accepted.

Access removed.

Subscription unusable.

Refund ignored.

Explanation missing.

A bold commercial model: take payment with one hand, lock the door with the other, then pretend not to hear the knocking.

But the adventure had only just begun.

I was directed to verify my identity through Persona.

So I did.

It failed.

I tried again.

It failed.

A third time.

It failed.

A fourth time.

It failed.

At this point, the average houseplant could have detected a pattern.

But LinkedIn Support, operating at a level of insight previously unknown to modern civilisation, offered its solution:

Try Persona again.

Truly visionary.

Four failures, apparently, were not evidence of a broken process.

They were merely the warm-up act.

Perhaps the fifth attempt would unlock the secret chamber.

Perhaps the sixth would reveal the meaning of life.

Perhaps, after enough failed verifications, a tiny LinkedIn employee would emerge from the screen and whisper, “Premium networking achieved.”

Sadly, no such miracle occurred.

So I contacted LinkedIn Support and asked some extremely difficult questions.

Questions such as:

Why was my account restricted?

What policy did I allegedly breach?

What content was the issue?

What conduct was the problem?

What happens to my subscription?

What happens to the money LinkedIn took?

I realise now how unreasonable this was.

Expecting a support department to answer support questions may have been wildly ambitious.

LinkedIn responded with the precision of a man throwing darts in a dark room.

They answered nothing.

Not nearly nothing.

Not mostly nothing.

Nothing.

Every reply carried the serene confidence of someone who had read the subject line, ignored the email, and selected a template from the sacred dropdown menu of irrelevance.

Then came the grand finale.

After multiple emails, four failed verification attempts, and several direct questions left untouched like museum exhibits, LinkedIn informed me that my account had violated its policies.

Which policy?

Unclear.

What conduct?

Unclear.

What content?

Unclear.

What evidence?

Unclear.

What about my subscription?

Unclear.

What about my money?

Apparently also on a spiritual retreat.

It was not so much a customer service response as a medieval proclamation nailed to a castle gate:

“The subject has committed an offence.”

“What offence?”

“An offence.”

“Which rule?”

“A rule.”

“What happens to the money?”

“Behold our User Agreement.”

At this stage, I began to wonder whether LinkedIn Support is staffed by humans, bots, or a committee of toddlers in business-casual clothing pressing random buttons on a keyboard.

That may sound harsh, but I say it with respect for toddlers.

A toddler, at minimum, will eventually answer a question if offered a biscuit.

LinkedIn Support appears to have built an entire operating model around avoiding that level of accountability.

The real genius of the system is its simplicity:

Step 1: Accept customer’s money. Step 2: Restrict customer’s account. Step 3: Send customer to failed verification process. Step 4: Ignore customer when they explain the process failed. Step 5: Announce vague policy violation. Step 6: Provide no particulars. Step 7: Ignore refund question. Step 8: Close case. Step 9: Call it support.

Magnificent.

A masterclass.

A corporate symphony of incompetence.

To this day, I still do not know what I supposedly did, what rule I supposedly breached, what evidence LinkedIn supposedly relied on, why Persona failed four times, what happened to my subscription, or why LinkedIn believes “we reviewed it” counts as an explanation when no explanation has ever been provided.

But I have learned something valuable.

If LinkedIn ever creates a course called **Communication Skills**, I strongly recommend enrolling — not to learn from it, but to study it as satire.

Because if LinkedIn Support is any indication, answering direct questions appears to be a violation of their Professional Community Policies.

My final request is simple.

If anyone at LinkedIn can locate my account, my subscription, my refund, the reason for the restriction, or a single answer to any question I asked, please check the same place where basic customer service disappeared.

I suspect they are all sitting together in a locked room labelled:

“Do Not Respond Substantively.”

Seems full of narcissists, posting what they think is wonderful, but in reality, it’s professional m#sturbation. It’s not about collaboration or networking, it’s about posturing, the old ‘My profile is better than your’s” mentality. Got roped into signing up by a close friend, and been thinking for some time about nuking it. Does zilch for any effort that you put in to it.

If you created an account years ago, request it to be deleted so you can use a new one, they'll want money and all your I.D details. Likely to sell to data brokers. It's probably not operating in the states anymore. You can make assumptions for whatever country it's in. If you try to log in to the old account with the right details, it'll… Read more

bottleneck and you'll just see a spinning wheel. That's honestly it. Wether it's phone, computer or another computer. That's all that happens. You have to create and login to make that request, but as you go log back in to your current account, they'll bottleneck you on that one at the server level too. And you can't just email that request. They want money and data from you. The entire model is all funnelled in to do that. People that hate you for being a westerner and wanting to gouge out money wherever they can is that culture. It's gone from a rat race to being farmed and scammed.

Absolute rubbish, full of big shots posting about their amazing careers, no help to job seekers at all,just demoralising crap allows others to see personal information.

Incredibly frustrating! But the bloody aged care sector uses this absolutely useless platform to apply for jobs on SEEK etc!! I too was locked out, tried to prove I'm legit but chasing my tail. They have your mob or computer ip address isn't that enough?! Haven't paid for any subscription thank @#&%!! Sadly the app isn't physical because I'd love the satisfaction of throwing it in the bin forever!! Do not use this!!

I unsubscribed 3 times in the last month. I'm still subscribed. They can't / won't unsubscribe. I'm still receiving daily (sometimes more often) offering completely irrelevant jobs. I am retired and do not want a job. Even if I did want a job, the… Read more

ones offered are generally not within my field of expertise or a different level. How can I get rid of them?

Can't delete my account. No human help what so ever. Apparently my password by the site is "not valid". So I had to go through and reset which sends you a pin. Get to that and come up with different errors or something that looks scammy. 10 goes at it and still unable to remove. I can't even alter my profile. What a crap company

ZERO stars - i was able to join and take up a premium account, then the recaptcha system automatically locked me out so I couldn't go back in and cancel the premium or apply for any jobs. I am also unable to verify my identity as the recaptcha system doesn't accept birth certificates or documents from my country, I was left with a useless… Read more

membership I was paying for that I couldn't log into, I wonder how many other people they have done this to ? i had to cancel my card in order to stop them taking money.

Zero stars they lock you I to premium account then their security system locks you out and when you send the documents they ban you for no reason. Had to cancel my card to stop them taking money. Literally uncontactable.

I give it minus 5 Stars, have tried numerous times to delete my account yet it is still there and still sending me annoying emails that I have had to block. The contact page is non existent so talking to a real person is out of the question to getting any help in closing and deleting your account. Worse blasted thing I ever signed up for. I hope a hugh EMP rips through their servers.

Every time I do a google search and happen to click a link from Linked In, it automatically logs into an account it creates for me! Then when I try to delete the account I have to go back and set up a new password then go through the delete process. I am SO SICK of having an account created without my consent and having to manually close it!!!

Has LinkedIn changed hands? Or simply gone the way of so many large companies - online or bricks and mortar - that reach a stage in their development where the priority is profit and money. Great companies flourished because of their customer service. The support at LinkedIn is non existent. I was talking to a chat box person and after three… Read more

minutes he said, he had to go now because he had to attend to others. Truly deceitful, unhelpful, uncaring. In my limited exposure to the site it seems many on there are snake oil and wannabes. Truly disappointing. What a missed opportunity.

Every time you click on LinkedIn it automictically creates an account via Gmail which you then in turn can only delete by confirming your email and creating a password. As far as I'm concerned this is almost like a hack having a website making an automatic unsolicited account without permission from the end user. LinkedIn you've been reported.

Bad experience – I had a bad experience with my linked account. The first time, my account was restricted, and I couldn't access it, even though I had the correct username and password. It was a waste of time. And then they need my ID to re-access the account. I don't know the reason.

Don’t waste money on LinkedIn Premium – Ridiculously expensive and then they want you to jump through more hoops to get this ticket and free in mail credits. I signed up for leads in AU and got flooded with rubbish leads from India… Don’t waste your money, LinkedIn is just a spam platform now unlike the platform from 5 years ago when it have some credibility and value. The fact a lot… Read more

of people now only check LinkedIn once or twice a week says a lot about the state of the platform and if I wanted B2B leads I’ll stick to programmatic ads, it works.

INCOMPETENTCY has a whole new meaning – I truly have never dealt with such an incompetent set of fools in my life and I'm 64, and travelled all over the world and lived in 9 countries... The idiots at LinkedIn bring a whole new meaning to the word incompetent... I live in Thailand and the Government has banned the use of NFC in mobiles... So I cannot do my personal verification through… Read more

persona (App is hopeless). I have been communicating with "customer support" for 5 days now and we are still no closer... I have been a member for 8 years...

Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, – Linked in is an echo chamber of ignorance and mental instability. It has become a sadder twisted version of facebook. I do not suggest you use this site if you want to be taken seriously.

LinkedIn does not like negative comments about their product – I posted some facts about LinkedIn being a social media site full of people who proclaim to be gurus in their fields. I also commented on the number of unsolicited ads they have in their feed. I was subsequently blocked from LinkedIn.

Terrible app to update login details – The worst app to update if you change jobs and email details. Impossible to fix this issue and no information or person to speak with to fix.

POOR SERVICE – WHO IS LINKDIN The web page is so confusing, Its almost impossible to make sence of how to contact them or live chat without logging in or signing up.

The lack of user control is infuriating – It’s becoming increasingly frustrating to use LinkedIn, especially when it seems to prioritize its algorithms over user control. One glaring issue is the automatic following of people I’ve never heard of and have no interest in. What’s worse is that LinkedIn makes it difficult, if not impossible, to unfollow these random connections. My feed is… Read more

filled with posts from people I don’t recognize, talking about topics that range from irrelevant business jargon to divisive politics and global conflicts I didn’t sign up for. This isn't what I joined LinkedIn for—it's supposed to be a professional networking platform, not a chaotic feed of opinions from strangers.

The lack of user control is infuriating. I didn’t ask to follow these people, and yet LinkedIn is building a list that I didn’t curate and won’t let me edit. It’s a total disregard for user preferences, leaving me stuck with a cluttered, annoying feed that only makes the platform feel more distant from its original purpose.

If LinkedIn continues down this path of algorithmic overreach, it risks driving away long-time users who just want a clean, professional space to network without being bombarded by unsolicited content.

I cannot stop their emails – I never joined Linked In. They send me emails. I cannot unsubscribe unless I sign in to an account. I do not have an account. To think Linked in is meant for professionals. Sadly their name is better than their service. They offer no generic email or phone to stop the emails. Pushy Scammers. Keep away from them. They themselves are annoying and scammers as they have no means of contact unless a member.

Premium account Restricted – Disgusting business. Restricted my paid premium account after the first payment was deducted then shut off communication & never respond. Two payments have been deducted & im chasing this as I want this money returned to me. Im submitting a request to PayPal & my bank. I will also report thos company to ACCC

Linkedin Advertising Scam – Linkedin Advertising Scam. I spent $430 and not a single lead. LInkedin takes your money and leaves you with absolutely no value in return. Highly recommend against using Linkedin Advertising. Dont wast your money.

Shouldn’t make it hard for your customers – LinkedIn charged me $299.99 for LinkedIn learning access. My account won’t activate so I can’t use it. Trying to contact someone from support to assist is like trying a solve a Rubik’s cube that fights back. Appears great thought has gone into making hard customers to contact them for issues to be resolved. I went through to the help centre… Read more

homepage multiple times and wasn’t able to proceed past step 2 to generate a ticket for support. There is no offering of an email or number to contact. Seems once you are subscribed they no longer care because they have your money.