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Why you should reply to your DMs on LinkedIn

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13.08.2026

Why you should reply to your DMs on LinkedIn

If you accept connection requests and ignore DMs, you’re missing out on the best of what LinkedIn has to offer.

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There’s a saying making the rounds online that LinkedIn has become a mass grave of ghost jobs and AI-generated content. The idea behind it is that Easy Apply jobs receive no responses, AI slop is flooding our feeds, and connections ghost each other in the inbox. In a quite meta fashion, the saying has become a recurring topic on the very platform it critiques. 

Recently, I published a post about how my LinkedIn green flag is that “I always respond to messages from my connections.” I called out the behavior that we had become too accustomed to on LinkedIn, of accepting connection........

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