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My experience of LinkedIn has declined from a marginally diverting way to follow career progress of former colleagues (2005-2009) through a pointless recruiter
by inopinatus 9y ago
My experience of LinkedIn has declined from a marginally diverting way to follow career progress of former colleagues (2005-2009) through a pointless recruiter circle-jerk (2010-2014) to being an unremitting fountain of scam sales-lead invites from profiles of dubious credibility (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.
- stevekemp 9y agoI made the mistake of clicking on a link in a linkedin email last week. Now I'm getting one email a day tempting me with "offers". Until last week I was lucky enough to get one email a year,which was about the right frequency to not annoy me. I wish there were a less-evil linkedin site, but as things stand I'll be deleting my account soon I think.
- jcadam 9y ago> I'm left wondering if there's a gap in the market; c.f. Facebook vs Myspace ca.2008. I strongly suspect there is. I'd love to take a crack at it, but I rather doubt a new social network is something one would realistically be able to bootstrap these days (you would need some serious funding for marketing to get it off the ground).
- jmartens 9y agoThe form should probably be different than what we think of as a social network anyway.
- jcadam 9y agoTrue. Social networks as they are today have become rather tedious and vapid and I've largely stopped keeping up with them. Something new is needed. Maybe I'll let my subconscious chew on the problem for a while :P