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What is so negative about LinkedIn?

dlisboa 8y ago
Almost everything? Aside from keeping an updated resume I've never had a single job come from it, nor anyone I know. As far as networking it's useless too. It's just recruiter spam and people you never met adding you to their network. They also did the whole MITM attack on your e-mail's contacts a few years back. None of that is Microsoft's fault though, it's been useless for a while.
- luckydata 8y ago
  That's, like, your opinion man. Most of my jobs and most of my friends jobs have come through (or discovered thanks to) Linkedin. Before becoming an employee I used the site to find cofounders, people to interview for product feedback, check the background of possible hires... You don't use it or like it, fine. Linkedin has created economic opportunity for so many, it's kinda ridiculous to dismiss it out of hand.
  - jacquesm 8y ago
    Says the guy working for Linkedin. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17232483 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17232483
    - luckydata 8y ago
      LOL, you caught me, so cunning. Almost like I didn't say "before becoming an employee" right in my comment.
      - jacquesm 8y ago
        Ah, I did not relate that use of the word employee to becoming an employee of linkedin. Fair enough. Still, unadulterated hype by employers of companies with questionable ethics doesn't hold a whole lot of weight in discussions like these.
        luckydata 8y ago
        If that's the reality you like to live in more power to you, but mine is not hype, is my personal experience, stuff I lived through. Can't you accept that someone's experience might be different than yours?
        jacquesm 8y ago
        > That's, like, your opinion man. :) See, that cuts both ways. My experience with linkedin: Countless emails suggesting that someone has 'added me on linkedin' when I never made an account, they clearly bought a list and kept on spamming it over and over again. A website that leaks data like a sieve, one failed attempt after another to create a sense of community, utterly meaningless endorsements and competency system. On and on. I really wonder what the draw of linked in is, I would never use it as a decision in whether or not to hire someone and I think it is one of the worst possible experiences on the web. And that's before we get into it now being a Microsoft subsidiary, another major strike against it. The sooner linkedin goes away the better, it's been ripe for disruption for many years.

Almost everything? Aside from keeping an updated resume I've never had a single job come from it, nor anyone I know. As far as networking it's useless too. It's just recruiter spam and people you never met adding you to their network. They also did the whole MITM attack on your e-mail's contacts a few years back. None of that is Microsoft's fault though, it's been useless for a while.

luckydata 8y ago
That's, like, your opinion man. Most of my jobs and most of my friends jobs have come through (or discovered thanks to) Linkedin. Before becoming an employee I used the site to find cofounders, people to interview for product feedback, check the background of possible hires... You don't use it or like it, fine. Linkedin has created economic opportunity for so many, it's kinda ridiculous to dismiss it out of hand.
- jacquesm 8y ago
  Says the guy working for Linkedin. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17232483 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17232483
  - luckydata 8y ago
    LOL, you caught me, so cunning. Almost like I didn't say "before becoming an employee" right in my comment.
    - jacquesm 8y ago
      Ah, I did not relate that use of the word employee to becoming an employee of linkedin. Fair enough. Still, unadulterated hype by employers of companies with questionable ethics doesn't hold a whole lot of weight in discussions like these.
      - luckydata 8y ago
        If that's the reality you like to live in more power to you, but mine is not hype, is my personal experience, stuff I lived through. Can't you accept that someone's experience might be different than yours?
        jacquesm 8y ago
        > That's, like, your opinion man. :) See, that cuts both ways. My experience with linkedin: Countless emails suggesting that someone has 'added me on linkedin' when I never made an account, they clearly bought a list and kept on spamming it over and over again. A website that leaks data like a sieve, one failed attempt after another to create a sense of community, utterly meaningless endorsements and competency system. On and on. I really wonder what the draw of linked in is, I would never use it as a decision in whether or not to hire someone and I think it is one of the worst possible experiences on the web. And that's before we get into it now being a Microsoft subsidiary, another major strike against it. The sooner linkedin goes away the better, it's been ripe for disruption for many years.