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Everyone in this thread acts like LinkedIn doesn't know exactly how bad they are. They are the perfect amount of bad for the sake of their business: Their mine
by MicroBerto 11y ago
Everyone in this thread acts like LinkedIn doesn't know exactly how bad they are.
They are the perfect amount of bad for the sake of their business: Their minefield of garbage makes them loads of money, but it's not so bad that a successor can unseat it (ie not at MySpace levels).
LinkedIn does a fantastic job of living on that edge. If they keep being shitty but not super shitty, they'll continue to win.
- alexandercrohde 11y agoMeh, I for one deleted (not just disabled) my linked in a few months ago. I realized I never made any connections on there that served me in any way. The shit wasn't bad enough to stop me from signing up, but after years it accumulated enough to make me leave. If other developers like myself leave, then the recruiters who pay premium to be able to spam developers like myself will leave to. Then the model collapses. In fact, the apps that don't bullshit me are the ones I use most (gmail, hn, craigslist, podcast websites).
- billmalarky 11y agoI suspect the next successful business network will be more compartmentalized by industry. Sort of like how github is more or less becoming a business network for developers.
- bryanrasmussen 11y agoI guess, considering how much their valuation has tanked recently, that they are not the perfect amount of bad for the sake of their business.