Comments on: New LinkedIn Feature: Viewers Of This Profile Also Viewed

By: Adam Nash

Adam Nash — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:49:49 +0000

It absolutely does not show anyone which profiles you have been viewing. All it shows is the profiles that other people look at in the same session when they are looking at yours.

It reveals absolutely nothing that ties any individual to who they personally view.

By: Me

Me — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:07:50 +0000

I AGREE – total invasion of my privacy. I viewed the profiles of a few people with whom I have personal not professional connections, and now my “viewers of this profile…” list is like a who’s who of my personal life. Great, thanks for letting people know that I viewed their profile.

By: Adam Nash

Adam Nash — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:50:36 +0000

No worries, Susan. I do, in fact, have a great deal of knowledge about LinkedIn (as I should, given my day job…)

I apologize if you’ve had trouble getting an answer directly from LinkedIn.

There is always overlap in life, but I’ve tried as much as possible to keep this blog a personal blog. From time to time I post about new features at LinkedIn that I’m excited about, but in general, I try to redirect Q&A about LinkedIn features and policy to official channels.

Take care,
Adam

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:32:44 +0000

Hi Adam,

If you will notice, the title at the top of your blog is “New LinkedIn Feature: Viewers Of This Profile Also Viewed.”

By your very posting, you have indicated you have a great deal of knowledge about LinkedIn. The verbiage seems to be tracked on google, where I originally did a search for my answer.

Secondarily, if it was possible to get an answer from LinkedIn, TRUST me, I would have directed the answer to them.

My sincerest apologies for putting you out,

Susan

By: Adam Nash

Adam Nash — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:37:52 +0000

It’s somewhat strange, but this blog post seems to be attracting a lot of traffic (and questions) all of a sudden. It’s a blog post from almost 18 months ago.

At the risk of being rude, this is my personal blog, so I don’t really want to turn the comment stream into official LinkedIn Q&A.

I would encourage people posting questions to direct them towards the official LinkedIn blog post (I reference it in the article) or if the matter is serious, contact LinkedIn customer service (the link is on the footer of every page of the site).

I do thank you for the interest, and hope that the information I provided was at least somewhat helpful.

Adam

By: Adam Nash

Adam Nash — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:28:20 +0000

Susan, if people who viewed your profile also visited those other people’s profiles, then they will show up. It’s a display of other user’s activity, not your own.

Adam

By: Adam Nash

Adam Nash — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:26:43 +0000

Nada, I believe that the feature does respect our privacy settings. If not, please contact our customer service, and they will help remove you.

By: Susan Tate

Susan Tate — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:30:48 +0000

Hi Adam!

I’ve searched far and wide for an answer but you seem like the LinkedIn guru. I’d appreciate a reply as I’m stumped.

To get to the point, on my LinkedIn page under “Viewers of this profile also viewed…” there are names I would rather not see.

Do you happen to know how to remove those?

Thanks so much in advance,

Susan

By: Nada

Nada — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:56:35 +0000

Adam, I’m very disappointed!!!!!!!!!

The feature “Viewers of this profile also viewed” is against privacy. Why people should see which profile I visit?
My setting in Account and Settings->Privacy Settings->Profile Views has always been as below
“Not show the user that you even viewed their profile”

But if I go on some new profiles I visited, everybody can see my name in the feature “Viewers of this profile also viewed.”
Where is the privacy???? Please allow me the possibility to disable it I’ll leave Linkedin.

And in any case you should refresh it more than one time per day.
Thanks and regards

Nada

By: Adam Nash

Adam Nash — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:24:00 +0000

Hi Jon,

Glad you like the feature. The test has been going extremely well. We had a small issue this morning with the prototyping server which serves this application – we should be good to go.

- Adam

By: Jon Bryant

Jon Bryant — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:47:32 +0000

I love the “viewers of this profile also viewed…” functionality, but today (03/24/08) I don’t see it anymore. Did the “test” not work out? I hope it’s not gone for good, I’ve been using this feature every day.

Thank

- Jon