&gt;  I have not suffered in any way<p>You don&#x27;t really know that, maybe you missed out on interesting jobs and you&#x27;ll never know.<p>At the very least, receiving recruiter emails from LinkedIn allows me to do networking and meet a lot of influential people at various companies, even if I don&#x27;t end up landing a job there. It also builds my recruiter network, which is never a bad thing: if I ever need a job one day, I am planning to spam my entire network of recruiter, let them know exactly what I&#x27;m looking for and let them do the work for me. It goes both ways.<p>I respect deciding to opt out of LinkedIn but there is an opportunity cost to such a decision that you seem to have overlooked.