I’ve been nosy on LinkedIn- help!

[GoldenCagedBird]

I was LinkedIn stalking someone. I don’t use it very much, and I’ve just remembered that I have a private profile.

I tapped their name via the search, so it’ll be even more mortifying if they know that I have found them by name.

I’d imagine I’ll come up as a link with my husband who she knows- so no hiding!

I’ve tried to cover it up by viewing the profile of lots of other people in their industry- as if I’m researching the sector as a whole. Such cringe

It was nothing other than nosiness- they are the DP of my husband’s acquaintance and did a service for our family business (think accountancy-ish) for us a few months back. I was reading through an old report she did a few months back and just got severely nosy.

trying to think of a way to style this out. I know it probably won’t register and no one cares but I’m prone to obsessions.

aghhhhhh!

I don't understand the problem - if she doesn't pay for premium she won't see who had a look at her profile. But if she sees you looked then so what? That's why we have profiles on LinkedIn - so people can see what we do and contact us.

hehe, I have a tendency to do this kind of thing and then cringe for months. Even if you’re in stealth mode, then the game is up if they have Premium (and LI are always trying to push free trials of Premium these days). Chances are that she won’t notice anyway 😬 maybe practice a response along the lines of ‘oh I think you might’ve come up as a suggested connection and I wasn’t sure if it was you or not!’ (Or something) with accompanying blank/nonchalant expression before you see her (add hand wave and loose subject change). If you have your DH as a shared connection and/or they’re in the same industry then it’s at least within the realms of possibility!

😂

Thank you!

Well . Not Sandra Philpott , as you aren't a Cat Surgeon I'm just going to "Unwatch This Thread"

You got my hopes up 'n' dashed them.

<flounces>

She will only see if she’s a premium member and it will tell you on her profile if she is or not.

Her to DP “remember Sandra?”

”who?”

”stalky cat surgeon. She’s blocked me!”

”Weirdo”

I’ve got premium membership so I can see who has viewed me unless they were browsing privately but I cannot see who else they were looking at. So your attempt to disguise your activity won’t have worked. But as others have said it’s really common to have people look at your linked in profile. I only know a small percentage of those who’ve looked at mine and it never bothers me if someone I know pops up as having viewed my profile because there could be any number of reasons why they did.