In February I published a paper on mathematics + ChatGPT (https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13867) and my colleagues, who were also on LinkedIn, told me it garnered quite a bit of attention.

So I signed up to LinkedIn on 3rd Feb. 2023, thinking that now would be a good time to step out of the academic ivory tower.

The thing is that I used my Gmail account to sign into LinkedIn. Which worked fine and I was a happy user for about a month. I then went travelling and when I returned one month later to log in again with Gmail - suprise! A new account was created on the spot.

So now I have the old account which had started to accumulate some important contacts: https://ro.linkedin.com/in/simon-frieder-5b6874264?trk=publi...

as well as a new, useless account:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-frieder-b7901b271/

I had been happy to use my Gmail account to login, so I did not bother to setup an extra email login process into LinkedIn.

How can it be that the software engineering of a multi-million company even allows such blunders to happen?