I've been trying to get out of LinkedIn, the social networking website for suits and arseholes for some time now.I've been through the account settings on numerous occasions, clicked through the "Delete Account" mechanism, only to find - days later - a stream of LinkedIn emails in my inbox.
So, I give it one final go.
Why, they ask, as I click on Close Account yet again, do you want to leave LinkedIn?
So I resort to begging: "Just let me leave. PLEASE. I'll give you any money"
And it is done.
Then, two days later, the tell-tale ping on my Blackberry (the ponce's phone of choice) that I have new email.
Subject: LinkedIn - Updates from your connections.
F F F FU FU FU FU FU FFFFFFFU.....
Time to break out the tactical nukes.
11 comments:
I finally managed it. Havent had an email for a month or so now.
Actually, I think there were about 6 are you sure pages, so maybe you didnt stick with them right to the end?
Just change, your email account, phone number, address and name. I think it would be easier and faster than trying to leave this sinclair C5 of an internet service.
Could you not just set up a rule to auto delete anything from LI?
Could you not just go to your options screen and uncheck the box for e-mail updates? That's what I did. You need never be bothered by them again.
You could search for professional IT assistance in this matter.
I know a brilliant site that enables you to connect with the widest array of skilled and experienced persons. It's called LinkedIn, and it's so easy to set up an account that in just minutes you will be networking with a wide range of professionals just like you!
I've got two Linkedin accounts, not sure why. I can't access one at all, as the email account I used to set it up has crashed (courtesy of Linkenin, I presume). I use the other to trap ambitious people, as I make out I'm even more of a loser than I really am. Aaargh, they've linked to a career leper! But they can't get rid of me.
My LinkedIn account sends invites on my behalf and accepts invites, too! It's thoughtful like that.
I'm not in it.
I feel as if I'm missing out.
Sounds like the Mafia...
Leaving Facebook was almost as tough...
A year later, I still get reminders that 10,000 people are looking for me(!) and everytime I hit the wrong button on any oother Facebook-compatible site, it tries to log me back into the dead account.
It's a huge conspiracy to bring into the grid...
Scary - it appears that escaping the clutches of Craphone Warehouse is equally difficult. They've been pestering me by phone and text since May to upgrade my phone - that would be the one I upgraded directly with my service provider in April. Even telling their little call-centre drones explicitly that I want to be taken off the database for further pestering calls and replying 'STOP' to all of the texts they still want to contact me every month to try to sell me a new phone.
Bunch of Arse.
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