A day's worth of Twitter ($5.00)

[afuna]

12:57:35	—	Deleted my LinkedIn account last week, but they just sent me an email with some identifying info. Something seems wrong; I'm skeeved out
13:09:12	—	hmm. okay am *not* searchable by my name, but my data is still on their servers, and I need to explicitly opt out of getting spammed by them
13:12:21	—	and I can't log in to delete my data on #linkedin because I deleted my account last week, oy #catch22sucks
13:12:44	—	@likhain UGH *hugs*
13:18:22	—	@likhain I get that it's useful as a networking thing, but it's so. damn. pushy. blah

Total: 5 tweets

You can find me as afuna on Twitter.

Comments

[pauamma]

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386459,00.asp says in the Linked-In section;

If you accidentally close an account you want, call customer service within 72 hours to get it reactivated.

Worth a try?

[afuna]

mmm but the thing is I want to permanently delete it rather than reactivate it.

(Also I'm not sure I can call, I bet it would be overseas)

But if it's that they're holding my data for the short term just in case I want to be reactivated, I'll go wait and see.

[pauamma]

*nod* Might also help if there was a "remove all my data" checkbox you missed when you deleted. (So you could undelete it, then delete it again, this time with data removal.) Or it might be what you said, that they're just keeping it for 72 hours. But if that's the case, kinda confusing they would leave it visible, though.