LinkedIn unlike, Facebook, Whatsapp or Twitter has earned its name as the leading professional social media platform. Therefore privacy on LinkedIn is paramount. In June 2016, Microsoft bought LinkedIn for $ 26.2 bn in a deal that marked Redmond’s legitimate foray into social networking, a field it had shied from over the years while scores of netizens flooded Facebook, Twitter, and spiraling Snapchat among others.
Its important to secure you privacy on LinkedIn and many other online platforms that you subscribe to. In LinkedIn the Settings & Privacy page allows you to manage your account settings and update your privacy and security settings, and set your preferences for how frequently you’re contacted by and through LinkedIn.
At the top of the page, you’ll also see an overview of your account details, including your profile headline, number of connections, and what Premium accounts you currently have, if any.
The Settings & Privacy page is organized into four tabs to help you easily view and modify your account information, privacy preferences, ads settings, and communication notifications.
- Account tab – allows you to manage your account settings, such as adding email addresses, changing your password or language, and other account management options.
- Privacy tab – covers all privacy and security settings related to what can be seen about you, how information can be used, and downloading your data.
- Ads tab – enables you to control the information that LinkedIn uses to show you relevant ads by adjusting your account’s ads settings.
- Communication tab – houses your preferences for how LinkedIn and other parties are able to contact you, and how frequently you’d like to hear from us.
To access this page you can click the Me icon at the top of your LinkedIn homepage and select Settings & Privacy from the drop down. Alternatively you can also type https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/ into your browser’s address bar.
Privacy on LinkedIn in iOS or Android phone can be achieved by accessing this page by tapping your profile picture and then tap the Settings icon in the upper right corner. Navigate through the four tabs to adjust settings for Account, Privacy, Ads, or Communications.
Once done you can do several things to manage your privacy including:
- Changing Your Password
- Adding or Changing Email Addresses
- Adding and Removing Mobile Phone Numbers from Your Account
- Stopping or Changing Email Notifications
- Sharing Profile Changes with Your Network
- “Who’s Viewed Your Profile” – Overview and Privacy
- Turning on Two-step Verification for Improved Security
- Setting push notification settings
- Viewing your groups
Changing any of the above setting in their respective tabs will help you go a long way in ensuring your account is private, especially when it comes to “Who viewed your profile” settings, to setting up a 2 step verification password. It should be noted that LinkedIn has reserved some of these features to be fully unlocked for it’s premium subscribers.
