Discover your LinkedIn Start Date and LinkedIn User ID

Did you know that LinkedIn actually assigns a serial number to its users?  It’s sequential so you can tell what “order’ people joined LinkedIn.

I actually joined LinkedIn a long, long time ago.  Investigation shows that my LinkedIn user ID number is 125,841.

I actually met someone with an ID in the 10,000′s last month.  WOW!

LinkedIn also shows you when you joined, down to the date. In my particular case, that would be January 14, 2004.

So, you are probably asking one or two questions:

1. How do I see WHEN I joined LinkedIn?

You are one click away from finding out. Simply click on the LinkedIn Accounts and Settings text link.  It is at the top of every LinkedIn screen. It is shown below in the top red square.

Upon clicking, you will be at the LinkedIn Accounts & Settings Screen itself.  Your join date is shown in the second red square below.  This screen shows January 14, 2004.

Finding your LinkedIn “Join Date”

This is what the URL string in the browser bar above looks like up close:

In a future post, I will show you a KILLER application for this information.  It is one that will help you grow your network tremendously, all on its own!

That said, please look up yourjoin date and ID number and post it below as a comment.  We would like to chart the growth of LinkedIn with REAL data points.  For example, Lori Ruff, an executive here at Integrated Alliances, joined LinkedIn on July 14, 2005 and her user ID is 3,173,651.