LinkedIn has blocked me.
I hope I don’t sound too much like a crackpot by stating that I’m not comfortable “submitting a government-issued ID” to Microsoft. I presume they really mean “submit a photograph of a government-issued ID”, but that’s still a “no thank you” from me.
LinkedIn was the only social media network I ever joined, and days after doing so, I regretted it. Other people have good write-ups of why it’s problematic. For me, it was a lot of dumb stuff I wasn’t interested in.
I remember trying to get a certification in the Go language. They asked me about all kinds of compile-time flags on Windows that I had never used, since I was doing all my development on Unix. I failed the certification attempt, which is okay, because I could continue to write Go programs without it.
Anyway, my LinkedIn account is now frozen in whatever state I last left it. If you send me messages there, I won’t get them. I probably wouldn’t have gotten them anyway, since my messages were mostly recruiter spam. I think I linked to woozle.org from it, but I can’t even pull up my own profile without logging in, and I can’t log in until I let the drop my driver license or passport in whatever database they run.
I 5-10 years everybody will hate LinkedIn anyway, so I guess I’m just ahead of my time :)