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LinkedIn uselessness with Facebook creepiness™

• ryan-c 9y ago
  Are you implying that LinkedIn isn't creepy?
  • mfoy_ 9y ago
    It's not creepy, it's pushy.
    • dredmorbius 9y ago
      ¿Por que no los dos?
• mfoy_ 9y ago
  Oof, imagine browsing through prospective plumbers' Facebook profiles... Just adds a whole layer... of... weirdness.
• wickawic 9y ago
  I actually like LinkedIn because hey know they are the internet’s Rolodex and (more importantly) people on the site mostly use it that way. If I were pressured by society/peers to be “active” on LinkedIn in the same way we are pressured in an abstract sense to be on Facebook, it would lose all utility for me.
  • nathan_long 9y ago
    What bugs me is getting asked by people I know in a personal context to recommend them professionally. I can vouch that they are reasonably nice, but I don't know anything about their work. If I worked directly with someone and know they're good, I'm happy to endorse that.
  • paulie_a 9y ago
    To be fair they became the internet's rolodex by outright stealing your address book and sending fake invites to people on your behalf.
    • herogreen 9y ago
      And now they have put a join-wall that is hard to circumvent (erasing cookies does not seem to suffice). It is one of the reasons why I hope to never join Linkedin.
      • paulie_a 9y ago
        After deleting my account, I've had to look up a couple people recently and encountered that. My only thought is: "thanks LinkedIn for making yourself increasingly irrelevant"
• ghostbrainalpha 9y ago
  I found my current job on LinkedIn.