LinkedIn profile peepers - we see you! Edit your privacy settings.This week I mentioned to a friend how I can tell who has been viewing my LinkedIn profile and I thought she was going to pee her pants.

Her: “WHAAAAAAT?” she gasped, slowing realizing that if you can see them, they can see you. ” It’s not all super secret stalking like Facebook?”

Me: “Nope.”

Her: “I don’t believe you.”

Me: “(sigh)”

Attention LinkedIn profile peepers:  if you don’t want folks to know you’re eyeballin their info you’ll have to change your settings.

Look for Accounts & Settings in the upper righthand corner, then click on Privacy Settings, then Profile Views. Here is where you will decide what, if anything, folks see when you peep their profile.

Some folks mark theirs  so that you can see their name and place of employment; for others you can only see their company name and title; still others mark their settings to only show vague references like “public relations professional in the United States.” Mine is set so you’ll see nothing at all.

I imagine that only the most geekly of us actually control our privacy settings for fun on purpose. If you’ve not visited your privacy settings page since joining LinkedIn, make time for it. Accounts and Settings allows you to control what folks see on your profile homepage, what emails you want to receive, and what folks see or don’t see when you look at their profile.

Actively managing your profile is important because, like everything else on the net, it’s all Googleable. And it allows you to be sneaky. Be sure your LinkedIn profile is working for, not against, you. Oh! And if we aren’t LinkedIn, we should be. Shoot me an invite!

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