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Is Abuse a New Thing For Linkedin ?

LinkedIn users do not compromise how the professional network should be used and what they expect for a while. Because of this, users protest with ‘’Leave it’’ and ‘’Delete’’ slogans that are increasing.

Yusuf Demir
Yusuf DemirCloud & Software Reporter
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Is Abuse a New Thing For Linkedin ?

LinkedIn users do not compromise how the professional network should be used and what they expect for a while.Because of this, users protest with ‘’Leave it’’ and ‘’Delete’’ slogans that are increasing.

The main problem is abuse on LinkedIn.Most of the known case is some male users are harassing female users with using their professional networks.Many LinkedIn users want to use this platform for business connections, information exchange and new job search not for flirt or fun.Other social networks also support this action by disclosing the fake or porn accounts.

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However, this discourse does not be held by all LinkedIn users who think to decide what to do in the response itself even if the platform name is a professional network.Things to do just delete it from your system.On the other hand, it raises important questions that related to the division between professional and social network.

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Yusuf Demir

Yusuf Demir

Cloud & Software Reporter

Yusuf Demir is the Cloud & Software Reporter at TrendinTech, where he covers cloud infrastructure, enterprise platforms, developer tools and the digital transformation of businesses in the UK and the United States. He previously reported on enterprise technology for The Register in London and covered the cloud and SaaS beat for TechCrunch, following the competition between AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, the open source licensing disputes and the rise of Kubernetes. Yusuf holds an MEng in Computing from Imperial College London and speaks regularly at KubeCon and AWS re:Invent, where he moderates conversations with engineers and chief technology officers. He is most interested in the gap between vendor roadmaps and the systems engineers actually run, and in what the cloud bill looks like once the free credits expire.

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