When someone invites you to their network, you receive
an invitation. After you accept the invitation, the two of you are
added to each other's network.
About this task
If your administrator enabled email notifications, when
people add you to their network you receive an email message that
invites you to join. The email contains a link to the My
Network page, where you can accept or decline the invitation.
If
email notifications are not enabled, you can access invitations from
the My Network page.
Procedure
To accept a network invitation, complete the following
steps:
- Open the invitation by doing one of the following things:
- If email notifications are enabled, you can click the link
that is provided in the email invitation to open the My
Network page.
- Select Invitations from the My
Network page.
- Accept or ignore the invitation.
- To accept the invitation and join the inviter's network, click
Accept.
Note: You can also click on the name of the inviter and accept the
invitation from their profile page.
- To ignore the invitation and delete it from the Invitations tab,
click Ignore.
Note: When you ignore an invitation,
the inviter does not receive notification of your action.