I get good value. I work in marketing, client side. I use it for recruiting to see backgrounds, how peeps career developed etc. I use it for making business d

I get good value. I work in marketing, client side. I use it for recruiting to see backgrounds, how peeps career developed etc. I use it for making business deals. Occasionally I'll reach out to another person where I can see the opportunity to partner on something. How well this is received surprised me at first. I assume it's because I'm not a sales person trying to sell something approach, and it shows people do read their messages. I use it to keep an eye on what friends and colleges in are doing. People us it to approach me, often spam but I get much more on email and occasionally get useful introductions. I use it to look at other companies if I'm thinking of working with them. E.g you can get an idea of if a company is growing/shrinking via their headcount and other things like that. I've used it to escalate issues I'm having with a business to senior guys that can sort problems. And once used it to flag a database breach I found to a CEO after their IT guys hadn't responded to my emails.....for 6 months... So it is plenty useful in my user-case and I'm happy for them to show me some ads in return.