The green dot on LinkedIn means that a person is online. 🟢
For practicality and efficiency, LinkedIn continually innovates and implements new features.
The active status (green dot) is one of them. It is designed to streamline communication among members.
We explain everything in this article!
What is the active status on LinkedIn (the green dot)?
If you are a regular LinkedIn user, this little green dot on a profile picture is certainly not unknown to you. It indicates active or online status.
It appears in two ways:
Active state in the news feed.
Once logged into your account, you will see the green dot appear. It means that your session is active. Also visible to other users, it serves to indicate your online presence and show that you are available.
The green dot, therefore, indicates that they can interact with you in real-time.
Active state in messaging windows
When you are in a messaging window, the green dot also appears on your user profile. It indicates that you are visible and accessible for discussion.
To be able to chat timely, it is better to wait until the person is active (with the full green dot). 🟢
They will receive a notification as soon as you send them a message.
Important point:
The green dot does not guarantee that a user is in front of their screen or smartphone nor that they are on LinkedIn.
Their profile may be open but they may be occupied with other things. However, they will receive a notification as soon as you send them a message.
On LinkedIn, it is also possible to modify this status to hide your activity.
What does the green and white dot mean?
If the green dot indicates that you are online, what does the green and white dot mean?
It means that the person is no longer on LinkedIn but has been recently active and/or has enabled mobile notifications.
This allows you to know that your prospects are active on LinkedIn mobile.
You can still contact them but expect that the conversation may not be very smooth.
How to enable and disable this status?
Click on “You” in the top menu of LinkedIn
Click on “Settings & Privacy” in the menu
Go to the “Visibility of your LinkedIn activity” tab and “Change” in the “Manage active status” section
Finally, choose among the 3 proposed options
You can choose “No one” if you wish to completely hide your activity.
However, keep in mind that in this case, you will also not be able to see if your connections are active.
Note that changes sometimes take time to come into effect (up to 30 minutes).
Leverage active status for your prospecting or recruitment
Thanks to its messaging box options, LinkedIn offers its users the possibility of setting up a smooth communication. For this to happen, the recipient of your messages must indeed be online and therefore available to respond immediately.
Thus, when you need to get answers as quickly as possible, it is better to wait for the right moment. Send your messages when the person is active, so their profile shows a green dot.
The green dot, therefore, makes complete sense here. At a glance, you have the potential to know the availability or not of your interlocutor.
For this, tools like LeadIn can help you by automating message sending at the best time!
In summary, the active status is a way for LinkedIn users to know, in real-time, if a person is online or not. At a glance, your contacts can then find out whether or not you are available for discussion. You now know that the best way to get a quick response is to contact someone when they have the green dot active on LinkedIn.
