LinkedIn is an excellent platform for professional networking, but what happens when someone starts harassing you – or sending you piles of unwanted messages?
In that case, you give us a couple of minutes of your time, and we’ll show you how to protect yourself from unwanted communication on LinkedIn for good.
Blocking Someone on LinkedIn: The Consequences of Your Actions
At some point, you must’ve been tempted to block someone you’ve never heard of but requested to connect with you. Or you’ve just started getting annoyed by receiving never-ending messages from people you don’t know and spam your regular LinkedIn experience?
Is it worth blocking them, and what will this actually do?
- For starters, blocking someone on LinkedIn prevents them from being able to see your profile or contact you through the platform.
- They also can’t see any mutual connections you have, which could potentially put them off from trying to contact you on the platform.
- They can’t see anything on your profile – for instance, no endorsements. This means that they can’t even try to move back in among your LinkedIn contacts sweetly.
- Blocking someone on LinkedIn will not remove any previous endorsements, activity, and comments on your posts and profile; everything will remain visible and intact.
In brief, to block someone on LinkedIn isn’t the same as just deleting them from a list or something similar.
For instance, you won’t get rid of them entirely – but the blocking will make it more difficult for them to get to you or connect with you in any possible way on the platform.
And the good thing about blocking someone on LinkedIn is the fact that they won’t get any notification about your check-mate move.
How To Block Someone on LinkedIn from Mobile?
Both Androids and iPhone/ iPad devices can install and use the LinkedIn App from their official stores.
- If you’re using the LinkedIn app, simply enter, and find the person you want to block.
- Open their profile and scroll down a bit. Find the section where it says Messages and More, and click on the three dots next to them.
- Now, choose the last option on the list, saying Report or block.
- On the next screen, you need to take action and decide what you want to do – click ‘Block.’
- On the following screen, confirm your decision (secondary permission).
And, if you’re a mobile user of the LinkedIn Lite app, the steps are quite the same.
You’d want to know that the LinkedIn Lite app takes only around 3MB, which is much less than the original LinkedIn app, consuming more than 900MB of your disk space.
Furthermore, the LinkedIn Lite app has all the available features and is meant for slower devices and unstable or weak Internet connections.
Therefore, follow the same steps if you need to block someone while using the Lite version. Though, there’s a slight change in the end; instead of the button “Block” (shown on the last image above), you’ll be given the option ‘Submit.’
Note: The same pattern of steps goes for those blocking someone via a web browser on their mobile.
How To Block Someone on LinkedIn From a Desktop Device?
Desktops and Macs don’t necessarily need to install a LinkedIn app because the access is done via a web browser of your choice.
Whatever the web browser may be, Macs and PCs have one thing in common – there are no three dots.
- Instead, when you want to block someone on LinkedIn, open their profile and click on the More button.
- Here, choose the last option in the list, saying Report/ Block.
- On the next screen, you need to decide whether you want to report, help, or block your contact: choose Report (name of the profile).
- On the finishing screen, hit the Block button (in the right bottom corner of your notification box).
How To Unblock Someone on LinkedIn?
Not all decisions in life have a reverse button, but, fortunately, this one does.
In other words, if you can block someone on this social network, you can also unblock them. This is possible because once you block someone’s account, the same is automatically sent to your personal ‘Block list.’
BUT, there’s a trick: once you unblock someone, you can’t block them again. You need to wait for at least 48 hours to pass if you decide that blocking them was the right thing to do in the first place.
These are the steps you need to take to unblock someone:
- Enter your LinkedIn account > tap your profile picture in the top left corner. Here, choose Settings and Privacy.
- A new screen with a list of options will appear. Search for the Visibility option, located on the left vertical sidebar.
- On the next screen, you’ll find many settings under the Visibility of your Profile and Network. By clicking this – on the right sidebar, the blocking tab will appear at the bottom of your screen.
- By clicking it – you can see and change the list of your blocked accounts.
- From the list, tap Unblock next to the person’s name/ account you wish to retrieve among your LinkedIn contacts.
As an extra precaution, in the next step, you will be asked for your LinkedIn account password instead of simply confirming your action.
Only after entering your password you can finish with the unblocking procedure. Just click on the button “Unblock member.”
Wrapping Up
As we mentioned – blocking someone on LinkedIn is quite simple.
And you are more than capable of doing it on your own, especially after reading our concise step-by-step guide.
Whatever the reason for blocking may be – LinkedIn isn’t asking you for insights. Whether they were being a little too persistent in their messaging or crossing the line with unacceptable behavior while communicating, anything that goes above and beyond your limit is a good enough reason to block someone.
Make sure to understand the consequences of blocking – for you and the other account before blocking them for good.
