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My experience of LinkedIn has descended from marginally diverting (2005-2009) to a pointless recruiter circle-jerk (2010-2013) to an endless source of scam sale
by inopinatus 11y ago
My experience of LinkedIn has descended from marginally diverting (2005-2009) to a pointless recruiter circle-jerk (2010-2013) to an endless source of scam sales-lead invites from profiles of dubious credibility (2014-2015).
I disabled all notifications long ago.
It is possible that this is the unavoidable fate of any professional-oriented social networking service. Nonetheless the value of LinkedIn to me is now effectively zero. I don't know anyone who respects their brand, and I'm left wondering if there's a gap in the market; c.f. Facebook vs Myspace ca.2008.
- username223 11y agoThere is a very small gap. LinkedIn had a short run as an email address harvesting operation. Now they cost me about a second a month, between the time that one of their messages makes it through my spam filter and the time I mark it as spam. Something not called LinkedIn could probably harvest a few more addresses before becoming just as hated as LinkedIn. (Side note: I just got an "invitation" "from" someone I met this year in a completely non-job context. I'll ask the next time I see him, but I'm pretty sure he did not explicitly ask me to whatever-the-heck in LinkedIn. More likely, he made the mistake of uploading his address book.)
- chias 11y agoIt's always fun when this happens to someone who has production's on-call address in their contacts list. There really is nothing quite like having the "everything is on fire" pager ring at 3:25 AM only to find that someone wants emergency_oncall@company.com to join their linkedin network.