Yes, it’s true, as both lorene and I have mentioned. Upgrading your account to paid simply extends the window for how far back you can see profile views. If someone looked at your profile yesterday, for instance, that information is available to you whether you have a paid account or not. I think the extended window unavailable to free accounts is for views older than 30 days.
And as far as the “paywall” is concerned, the basic free account allows you to do pretty much all the networking you’d need for job search and professional connections. Upgrading gets you things like that extended window for profile views, “InMail messages” (ability to direct-message non-connections), and extended profile views and search parameters.
We might be talking about two (or more) different things.
First of all, you cannot see who searched for you name (they will show you the number of times your profile came up in search, but not who was searching). As far as I know, this isn’t even in any of the upgrade packages. We’re talking profile views, specifically.
Secondly, if your own profile is set to anonymous, LinkedIn will not show you who looked at your profile either (it’s sort of a reciprocal thing; if you want to see who looked at your profile, you have to set your own so that they can see you looked at theirs).
Lastly, it’s not necessary to pay to see who looked at your profile, only that your own profile is not anonymous.
I don’t know if a “page” is what LinkedIn calls what we are going to have, but we are going to have an online space where we can have discussions and post things, and it will be “on LinkedIn”. It will be closed to members only. We will have some way outside of LinkedIn by which we will identify new members, and somebody who knows how to do such things on LinkedIn will add give them access.
The point of this thing is to facilitate a conversation between people who already know each other. We are not going to use this to advertise ourselves, sell something, identify new victims, anything like that. It’s to be a virtual clubhouse, not a virtual storefront or ad campaign.
LinkedIn has lately been getting some heat for this. They are getting some bad press and even some lawsuits.
Allegedly, they badger you for your e-mail address and password :eek: then spam all your contacts, sending them invites in your name to join LinkedIn, without your knowledge or prior consent.
LinkedIn is also accused of selling indulgences to both employers and job-seekers, regarding the placement of job postings and/or resumes in search results.
ETA: P.S.: I myself, not a LinkedIn member, have received some such spams. And my cousin, the LinkedIn member in whose name those spams were sent, has advised me that she’s pissed about it.
The solution to the first issue is pretty easy—don’t enter your email password. You don’t get kicked off if LinkedIn for not letting them spam your friends.
The second issue is just :rolleyes:. I was checking out job postings on LinkedIn recently and the site asked if I wouldn’t like to enhance my application and gain more attention by paying for an advanced membership. Like a recruiter is going to go, “My goodness! Let’s get this woman in here right away! She’s that rare breed, a LinkedIn member!”
Napier, that’s exactly what I meant. For some reason my brain was only coming up with “page” to describe it. I’ve been in both open and closed groups and prefer closed. The open ones are usually where people are trying to sell themselves more than have a discussion.