Severing LinkedIn...
Has anyone successfully rinsed LinkedIn out of their online hair?
I joined about 15 years ago to manage the company account which somebody had set up with badly worded text, etc. I subsequently had to rebuild it twice as LinkedIn reset stuff and used it to advertise vacancies and post company news; when my company went bust (parent company Carillion's spectacular nose dive) I changed my account to my personal gmail (secondary email account), posted a company farewell, and thought I might find a job... Having eventually taken my pension I wanted to close it and went round in ever more frustrating circles. Three years later I tried again (in Jan I think), my entry is still there, my gmail still gets bombarded daily by utterly pointless linkedin emails and my password doesn't work because I closed my account. Doh! I think Ricky Gervais might have a pithy five lettered single syllable plural descriptor for them.
All I actually want to do is contact somebody and tell them to delete my account completely but I don't seem to be able to that without logging back in...
Is there a good online comms authority who can read the riot act at them in the UK? Any suggestions gratefully received....
Years ago I inadvertently got my email registered with Who Remembers Me? (actually a colleague invited me and I stupidly had a look at the site to decide I wasn't remotely interested) and had an equally difficult time getting out of it and was bombarded by messages - except I was able to email them and on receipt of a "you need to register to unregister yourself" reply, I lost my temper and fired off a cease and desist or face the full might of whatever body governed such stuff - whoever that was 25 years ago. I didn't know that email replies could convey stammering, but the "done and sorry" response seemed to do so...
Thanks folks!