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LinkedIn birthday block
Who even uses this?

It’s the most wonderful time of the year.
No, I don’t mean Christmas, I mean my birthday, which is when a bunch of random people message me on LinkedIn with birthday wishes. It’s a strange phenomenon I haven’t experienced on any other platform. My guess is that this was a feature created as a growth hack early in the lifecycle of the product; they simply forgot to get rid of as the product matured.
This got me thinking… what if there were a way to use this feature as a way to filter connections? I can imagine being able to block everyone who says happy birthday, or you could see a full list of them and make your own decision.
Given how neglected the birthday wish feature has been for years, I doubt LinkedIn would double down on adding any functionality at this point. If they did, it might be a simple rollback; I highly doubt any incremental product development would happen.
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