Have you ever accepted a LinkedIn connection only to later be sorry? Usually the problem is that your connection mistakes social media connection acceptance as an open invitation to sell you on an endless variety of business schemes.

Luckily there’s a way to break this connection and stop the sales pitches. Best of all your connection is never notified that you’ve disconnected.

How To Disconnect From A Contact In LinkedIN

 

1. Login to your LinkedIn account
2. Click Contacts at the top menu bar
3. Click “Remove Connections”

 

 

NY Times

I was staring at all the “Billy Bob is now connected to Suzy Smiley” notifications in my main LinkedIn feed and thinking how incredibly dumb it is that I would want to see those connections.

To me endless “connected to” messages are of fairly limited value though I guess if you’re playing the power networking game you may want to waste time browsing through that info.

Instead I thought to myself – I wonder if you can shut this useless information off — and just see the status updates that contacts post.

Well you can — and surprise it’s very easy.

Simply click on the “All Updates” and select “Customize” (see image above).

Then select which updates you wish to view in your LinkedIn feed.

Problem solved.