Why configure your LinkedIn profile? I was recently asked how to block someone from a LinkedIn account. I researched LinkedIn and while I was unable to technically “block” someone from an account, I did find ways to change your privacy settings by configuring my LinkedIn profile to make it more difficult for someone to be “stalked” once you have disconnected from them. If you want to be more private on LinkedIn, here are the steps you may want to follow: Step 1 Click on your image, or your avatar you have uploaded into LinkedIn in the top right hand corner and select Privacy and Settings You will probably have to enter your password even though you are already logged in. Step 2: Turn on/off your activity broadcasts. This LinkedIn feature notifies all of your connections all of your activity. If you are in the process of tweaking your profile, I would recommend turning this feature off. If you don’t want people to know what you are doing, leave the activity broadcasts in the off position. Step 3 Select who can see your activity feed: Who do you want to see your LinkedIn activity feed? Everyone? Your network? Your connections? Or only yourself? You may ask – what’s the difference between your LinkedIn network and your connections? Your connections are people who are actually connected to – 1st degree connections. Your network are people who are 2nd & 3rd degree connections. If you want to be private, you will want this setting to be only yourself. Step 4 Select what others see when you’ve viewed their profile. You can choose to show your LinkedIn profile, be somewhat anonymous or completely anonymous. The purpose of social media is to make connections and network, so for me, I don’t personally understand why you would would remain anonymous, but that’s me. If you want to be completely anonymous – this is where you would make this change. If you view someone else’s profile they will not know who viewed their profile. Step 5 Show/hide “viewers of this profile also viewed” box. You can see the example below that belongs to Carly Alyssa Thorne – “People Also Viewed”. She has this feature turned on. If you do not have this feature turned on – this box would not show. When this box is checked – this is an example of what they will see. You can see by looking at the example below, Carly shares her activity. She is connected to Lori Wilk, and was endorsed by Alexandar Alexandrov. She also shared a blog post. We’re going to skip over who can see your connections and go straight to Step 6 Change your profile photo and visibility I think this is probably the most important LinkedIn feature. Your LinkedIn profile photo is your first impression to the business social media network. You should take this opportunity to use a professional quality photo. I would highly recommend NOT using a poor quality photo, NOT using a company logo, NOT using a photo where you cannot clearly see your face or that does not represent you in a professional manner. This photo needs to instill trust and professionalism. This photo needs to be welcoming without being inappropriate or overtly sexual. This photo needs to be current. And finally – in answering the question of the person who was trying to block the individual who was being a “stalker”. Since she had disconnected from that person, all she needs to do now, is change her settings to show her profile only to people she is connected to. Don’t forget to SAVE each time you make changes to your LinkedIn profile. I hope these instructions help you with any problems or questions you may have been experiencing. Remember, if you have any questions in the future… just post them on my Facebook fan page https://www.facebook.com/YourSocialMediaMogul
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