LinkedIn has woken up to the fact that its members might not appreciate being showered in emails every single day.
The networking site, notorious for aggressively updating you on everything from meaningless endorsements to blog posts from people you don't know, announced Monday that it would cool off a bit.
"We’re also not immune to the late night talk show host jokes," Aatif Awan, the company's senior director of product management, wrote in the blog post. "We get it. And we’ve recently begun to make changes so that the emails you receive are more infrequent and more relevant."
LinkedIn's hyperactive email tendencies had indeed made it the butt of many jokes from exasperated users.
LinkedIn - thanks for occasionally sending me email reminders every single minute all the time forever.— Tyler Jordan (@TJ_Realtree) July 28, 2015
I think if the Candy Crush people and the Linked In people teamed up, they could cause an apocalypse from notifications and emails.— Melanie Dale (@UnexpectedMel) July 19, 2015
It doesn't matter what I do, I cannot escape emails from @LinkedIn. It's becoming laughable.— Samer Massad (@SMassad7) July 16, 2015
To cut down on the number of notifications, the company now gives you a single email rundown of your connection invites rather than individual messages if you are getting "too many." If you are part of multiple groups, it summarizes the across-the-board activity within them into one update rather than a separate notification for each group.
The result, according to the company, is that the site now sends about 40% less emails than it had before the changes. The site said it plans to continue to ratchet down its email blasters in the near future.
That's a start, but if you are looking to cut further, the company offers more controls over the flow and type of emails under the "privacy and settings" tab.