It’s onerous to decide what’s extra mindnumbing – the emails from LinkedIn reminding you of your “work anniversary” or having to endure different individuals’s boring tweets about them (“No, LinkedIn, a piece anniversary shouldn’t be a factor”).
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Instead of sending out an email every time a member of the social networking site gets a new connection, they will now be given a weekly round-up. Don’t worry – the social network is listening to users and making some changes.
In a blog post, LinkedIn’s senior director of product management for growth and life cycle, Aatif Awan, explained that his team is working to ensure emails users receive are “more relevant”. LinkedIn users who subscribe to several Groups on the site will also receive an aggregate of updates in a single email.
LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network on the internet, with more than 259 million members worldwide, including executives from Fortune 500 companies. LinkedIn may also send suggestions for connecting with others.
Mr Awan said the results so far had been “very encouraging”.
It’s pretty overwhelming – but LinkedIn wants users to know that it has heard them and will be making more improvements.
Although Awan didn’t say how many complaints LinkedIn had received about its email policy, he noted that cutting the number of emails sent to users by 40 percent has cut complaints in half.
The problem was that, by default, users who had just signed up or didn’t manually go into their account’s settings page to disable email notifications were flooded with tens of emails per week.
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