All LinkedIn Groups Becoming Private

This week LinkedIn announced that they are making all LinkedIn groups private. This is in an effort to improve the quality of conversation in groups, “we’ve simplified several group features to ensure that groups will always be the most trustworthy place for you to gather with like-minded professionals.” – LinkedIn

LinkedIn also won’t allow search engines to crawl the discussions, another key, it believes, to providing a trusted private space for people to communicate.

The intent is to restore professionalism to the groups, you are still going to have to deal with a small number of users who simply just want to span the entire group.

We should see these changes happen over the next couple of weeks. What do you think about these new changes? Do  you think they will benefit users? Or is there too much moderation by LinkedIn?