Big news for LinkedIn stalkers: If you keep visiting the page of a potential hire—or ex-romantic partner—you might not be lurking as stealthily as you once were.
LinkedIn is testing a "frequent viewer” feature that allows certain users with LinkedIn Premium to know if someone has looked at their profile multiple times. Krista Mollion, the founder of creative agency Unignorable Brands, first noticed the added detail last month.
“I called it the ‘stalker alert,’” Mollion tells WIRED.
Every few days, Mollion, who has nearly 79,000 followers on LinkedIn, gets a notification to “check out who has viewed your profile.” LinkedIn has long allowed users to see who has looked at their profile. If you pay for LinkedIn Premium, like Mollion, you can access even more details on who has visited your page, including a full list of every viewer over the previous year. But now when Mollion visits the Who Has Viewed Your Profile section, she sees certain people tagged as Frequent Viewers.
