LinkedIn Introduces ‘Focus Inbox’ To Weed Out All Your Unwanted Spam

LinkedIn is the place for businesses, career hopefuls, and graduates to connect and hopefully score a job or new employee. The platform has so far remained free of the usual trials and tribulations that have plagued other outlets such as Twitter and Instagram. However, with a growing number of 875 million users, this untapped market is a goldmine for bots.
 
With that, here comes the spam. Suppose you’ve been avidly using the network in the last year or so. In that case, you may have noticed an influx of unsolicited messages, also known as inMails, flooding your private messaging inbox, attempting to sell you on upgrading courses or hire you for shady jobs.
 
In an effort to retain its user-friendly and professional approach to networking, LinkedIn has introduced a ‘Focus Inbox’, which is meant to weed out all the unwanted spam.

The new feature will host a ‘Focused’ option for incoming messages and push all other mail into the ‘Other’ section on top of a new automatic spam detection update.
 
LinkedIn states that you can easily move mail between both tabs. Your inbox will learn your habits and become smarter the more you use it.
 
You can also actively report spam with a new action banner that reads “report an inappropriate message.” Spam will either be sent directly to the trash or remain in your inbox with a warning label.

The update was first released to premium members a few months back, but now it seems that it is getting a global rollout.

While it is not a surefire way to entirely getting rid of unwanted mail from the platform, it’s a great first step to freeing up the clutter from users’ workflow or networking process.
 
 
 
[via TechCrunch and Forbes, images via various sources]