LinkedIn is a great way to connect with people in your industry, but it can be tough to keep your email address private. Here are a few tips for hiding your email address on LinkedIn:

  1. Use a pseudonym. If you want to keep your email address private, you can use a pseudonym instead of your real name. This will help disguise your identity and protect your privacy.
  2. Use an anonymous account. If you don’t want to use a pseudonym, you can also create an anonymous account on LinkedIn. This will protect your privacy, but it will also make it difficult to connect with other members of the network.
  3. Use a fake name. If you still want to keep your identity hidden, you can use a fake name instead of your real one on LinkedIn. This will also help protect your privacy, but it may be difficult to find people who know about the alias you’ve chosen.
  4. Use an encrypted account. If anonymity is important to you and you don’t want others connecting with you through LinkedIn, consider using an encrypted account instead of a public one. This will help protect your privacy and keep the information hidden from prying eyes ..

Here’s what I did:

  1. Go to your LinkedIn profile, click “Edit Profile” (in the top right hand corner), scroll down until you see “Contact Settings”.Click on “Contact Settings” and then click on “Edit”.

  2. Now you will be taken to LinkedIn’s ‘Email Notifications’ page. Here is where we can tailor which LinkedIn notifications we receive via LinkedIn, and also decide whether or not we want our LinkedIn email address displayed publicly (or not). Scroll down to the bottom of that page until you see the following:

Select Email Invitation Requests from the dropdown menu, in my case I chose “No”. This means LinkedIn users cannot send me LinkedIn invitations directly, they have to go through LinkedIn. Then hit ‘Save Changes’.

  1. You’ll now be taken back to your LinkedIn profile edit page. If you don’t see any changes straight away don’t worry, LinkedIn takes a while to update. I waited about an hour before checking LinkedIn and it was still the same – you can see LinkedIn displayed as my email address, which is not what I want.

  2. Now click back on your LinkedIn profile again and go all the way to the top of your LinkedIn profile page until you see this:

  3. Click on “My Endorsements”. Take a note of how many LinkedIn recommendations your LinkedIn profile has at present, then click back onto your LinkedIn edit page again.

  4. Now that we are editing our LinkedIn ‘Contact Settings’ page once more, scroll down to where you will find:

7a) If you received all your LinkedIn endorsements from people in your own network (connected LinkedIn users) then you’ll see an ‘X’ next to LinkedIn Contacts. Click on the down arrow (next to LinkedIn Contacts) and select “Only LinkedIn Members Who are LinkedIn Endorsers”.

7b) If you received LinkedIn endorsements from people who were not previously connected to LinkedIn (LinkedIn users other than your network), or if you would like to make it so that you receive LinkedIn invitations/requests directly via email, then click on the checkbox for “Email Invitation Requests From Everyone except Myself” . Once again, hit ‘Save Changes’.

  1. Go back to your LinkedIn profile page once more – refresh if necessary. Your LinkedIn address will now be hidden from public view!