It’s drummed into us a lot lately about cyber security, identity theft and fraud, and some people feel that having your birthday on your LinkedIn profile increases your risk of exposure to these types of activities.

Why you may ask? Well, when you add your birthday to your profile you get the option of choosing who can see this information. You can choose either Only you (which includes LinkedIn!), or Your connections or Your network, or All LinkedIn Members.

In this article, we’ll talk about how you can hide your birthday on LinkedIn. Additionally, we’ll go through the process of switching off birthday notifications on your LinkedIn profile.

Linkedin is not helping your business 

• If you are lucky, your organic Linkedin posts are reaching an average of 2% of your followers. That’s crazy! This is a massive issue affecting thousands of professionals on Linkedin.
• You have been trying hard to build an audience on Linkedin that you do not even own.
• You cannot transfer your hard-earned Linkedin followers to your own CRM or another platform.
• Your customer acquisition costs from Linkedin ads are through the roof.

Stop LinkedIn Birthday Notifications in 7 Steps

You can follow the below-given steps to adjust your birthday privacy settings on LinkedIn.

Step-1 Open the Application:  Open the application and get going.

Step-2 Tap on Profile Icon: On the top left corner, you see your profile icon. Click on that.

Step-3 Tap on Settings: One is of view profile and the other is settings. To stop LinkedIn birthday notifications, click on the Settings option.

Step-4 Go to Communications Menu: So, you need to click on the communications option in the list of settings.

Step-5 Click on Email: So, to stop receiving emails about birthday events, click on the option of Email and go further.

Step-6 Tap on Network: You need to tap on the network to stop LinkedIn birthday notifications flooding your Gmail every day.

Step-7 Turn it Off: Well, if you do not want notifications of any kind of events, groups, invites, or birthdays, turn off the All Network option. You can do this with the help of the on/off button at the right end.

What You Should Do

• Hide birthday on your LinkedIn profile, make your birthday visible to only you.
• Don’t post anything that would allow someone to figure out your age or birth year, in text, photos, or videos.
• If other people reveal your age in their posts or comments, ask the person to delete them.