Today I received 4 identical messages from different senders saying that their company was expanding into the USA, etc. I reported these messages to Linkedin, and apparently none of them violate their spam terms. The fact that all the messages are identical and all from different users indicates to me that some kind of spam or AI service is being used. I get the same message every day or two. Yet Linkedin cannot identify these repetitive spams as spam.

I am also getting a bunch of invitations from Asian girls wanting to connect to me, because they have “seen my good work, and it so be nice to be connect you…” They barely write proper English and have pictures of pretty young Asian girls. I am so glad they think it would be worthwhile to connect to a small-office, home-office web service from Texas.

I am also getting many inquires to offer web design services… hmmm… from India.

I realize that a lot of people are trying to use Linkedin to create business connections. They are paying for the ability to approach me, but 500 connections may improve their SEO, but it sure doesn’t help to make irrelevant connections to someone like me, who is in a related field but not a likely candidate for their services.

In other words, Linkedin is become more annoying than useful. I enjoy connecting to friends and colleagues, but a lot of it is becoming more time consuming than useful to me.

Unless Linked in gets better filters for AI spamming, I may be bowing out.

Here is a sample of the identical messages I receive:

• Anna Campbell  12:11 PMHi, are we related in any way? Linkedln recommended you to me several times. Out of curiosity, I checked your profile. Linkedln was right, your experience and achievements attracted me and though our careers are different but I believe we can learn a lot from each other. When we travel to each other’s city we can also have a cup of coffee together and exchange more experiences whether in work or life. It would be fun. If you agree, please give me your # and let’s keep in touch! Surely we will be good friends? Sincere best wishes! 🤗 Anna