Following and connecting are two different things on LinkedIn, which is why your feed can be full of people you barely remember adding. You can stop seeing someone’s posts without removing them from your network at all.
Last updated 19 August 2026
When you connect with someone, LinkedIn follows them for you automatically. That is why a feed fills up with content you never chose. You can also follow someone you are not connected to, which is what the Follow button on a profile does.
Unfollowing breaks only the feed half. The connection stays, you keep each other in your networks, and you can still message each other exactly as before.
Nothing. LinkedIn does not notify anyone that you unfollowed them, and there is no list they can check. From their side the connection is unchanged.
This is the main reason to unfollow rather than disconnect: you get a quieter feed without a social cost.
The list lives under My Network, then Manage my network, then Following. Each row has an Unfollow button. You can also unfollow from a post in your feed through the three-dot menu.
On a profile the option is behind More, because LinkedIn assumes you would rather stay followed. Expect one click, a menu, and a confirmation for each person.
A few years of accepting invitations leaves most people following several hundred accounts. Unpend treats Following as one of its cleanup surfaces: you open that page, press Start, and it unfollows each one for you while you do something else.
The Network Manager also loads your whole Following list into a table, so you can sort it, search it, and unfollow only the accounts you actually want gone rather than clearing the lot.
Unfollow when the person is a legitimate contact whose posts you do not want. Disconnect when they should not be in your network at all. Unfollowing is reversible in one click and invisible to them; removing a connection means sending a fresh invitation if you change your mind.
For a feed that has become unusable, unfollowing in bulk is almost always the right first move.
No. LinkedIn sends no notification and provides no list of who unfollowed you. The connection itself is unchanged.
Yes, that is exactly what unfollowing does. You keep the connection and the ability to message; you just stop seeing their posts in your feed.
LinkedIn has no bulk unfollow. You either work through the Following list one row at a time or use a browser extension such as Unpend that performs the same clicks for you on the page you are looking at.
Unpend is a free Chrome extension that withdraws every pending invitation in a single run, and shows you the network LinkedIn will not. Three full cleanups free, any size, nothing leaves your browser.
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