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LinkedIn is going the MySpace way. Total crap “content”, endless amount of people that indeed just want “connect” without intro, reason or anything else than bu
by tnolet 9y ago
LinkedIn is going the MySpace way. Total crap “content”, endless amount of people that indeed just want “connect” without intro, reason or anything else than bumping their numbers. Weird thing, I found it pretty useful up to 2 years ago. I guess that’s when the influencers takeover and bullshit blogging began.
- praneshp 9y agoGod, you should see the number of 20 line posts, each line in a paragraph by itself, about how someone hired someone that others wouldn't. I agree with you about the 2 years/influencers thing.
- gnicholas 9y agoYeah, I think the platform is more popular among recruiters, which leads these types of posts to become popular with likes/comments/arguments. I am genuinely curious how they get tens of thousands of engagements though. I can't imagine getting in public arguments about this stuff. Maybe it's a form of networking for recruiters? To us outsiders, it's just plain bizarre.
- a3n 9y agoI no longer connect with any requests unless they include a personal message in the request, because they're either a "legitimate" connection trawler, or (I suspect) LinkedIn making the request "on behalf of" the "requestor." The last time (among many) that I accepted a generic, canned message request, I waited a week for the guy to say something to me. Nothing, and I dropped him. One problem for LinkedIn is that they have not made themselves so obviously above-board that a suspicion like mine would be implausible.