{"id":2589,"date":"2012-06-09T14:52:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T12:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2019-09-03T15:30:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T06:30:36","slug":"attempting-to-close-a-linkedin-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/?p=2589","title":{"rendered":"Attempting to close a LinkedIn account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the trend, I attempted to close my LinkedIn account. Closing a LinkedIn account involves confirming and confirming and confirming again. Once it's all done, you'd expect to, well, be done with it.<\/p>\n<p>I'm outraged at the result:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My public profile is still there. I can't be sure but I guess people with a connection to me can still see the full profile.<\/li>\n<li>I'm still receiving LinkedIn connection emails (You, know, those \"Learn about xxxxxxx, your new connection...\" emails ; I must have had pending outgoing invitations).<\/li>\n<li>I can still reset my password.<\/li>\n<li>I can still login.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only upside is that after I login, I can only see a page saying \"Your LinkedIn account has been temporarily restricted\". \"Contact our customer service team to get this resolved as soon as possible.\"<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> After contacting their customer service, the account was closed and the public profile is now unavailable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the trend, I attempted to close my LinkedIn account. Closing a LinkedIn account involves confirming and confirming and confirming again. Once it&#8217;s all done, you&#8217;d expect to, well, be done with it. I&#8217;m outraged at the result: My public profile is still there. I can&#8217;t be sure but I guess people with a connection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pdo","category-planet-mozilla","tag-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3946,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions\/3946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}