Real LinkedIn Profiles vs Fake LinkedIn Profiles
December 5th, 2011 | by Jason Alba |As a Group admin I go in and approve members of my Group on a regular basis.
I don’t want spammers in my Group, so I try to very quickly determine who is real and who isn’t. I wrote about this just a few weeks ago here: Want to Join a LinkedIn Group? Get more than ONE CONNECTION!
I just went in this morning and found I have 3 major criteria that I look at that will keep you from my Group:
- The warning I get from LinkedIn, as per the post above,
- NO PICTURE. If you don’t have a picture I don’t approve you, until I look at your Profile. Guess when I take the time to look at your Profile (hardly ever!),
- NO CONNECTIONS. If you have no, or only one, connection, you are either NEW or fake. I don’t take the time to try and figure it out… I just put you on hold until you look more real.
I’m sharing these off-the-cuff reactions as a Group admin so that you can reevealuate the message you are giving people with your Profile… is it complete? Does it look real? Or does it look like spam?