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LinkedIn is the weirdest product ever. Everybody is there, nobody is using it for anything. Except shady recruiters.

3np 6y ago
I actually do have several friends and other people in my network (some quite accomplished professionally) who are very active on LinkedIn, and there's not much shady about them. But yes, it's weird.
mumblemumble 6y ago
Well, that and colleagues of mine from over in the the marketing and sales departments, who can't understand why it takes me an average of 2 months to get around to accepting their connection requests.
treis 6y ago
Lots of people use it. The feed aspect of it is useless. But in terms of a network it's great. I've found 2 out of my last 3 jobs there. Assume it's also great for organic marketing as well where you target associates of your current clients.
- x86_64Ubuntu 6y ago
  So it's a digital rolodex. That's not terribly impressive for the weight of the name.
  - JumpCrisscross 6y ago
    > it's a digital rolodex. That's not terribly impressive for the weight of the name. It's an automatically-updating and linked rolodex. Rolodexes tell you that you know X. They don't say who X knows.
mcv 6y ago
Not just shady ones. I notice a lot of legitimate recruiters find me on LinkedIn and it leads to real work for me. I personally avoid it like the plague, but I do keep my CV up to date there. (Actually it's out of date right now, but I'll update it when I start looking again.)
kyleblarson 6y ago
And virtue signaling.
dpc_pw 6y ago
I call it "LinkedIn is the saddest social network ever".
kimi 6y ago
I think Linkedin is quite useless as a social network - their business model selling your contacts to "digital strategists" who try to contact you. Most of the content is marketing spam, and nobody uses it. Still, when we happen to recruit, we get like 10-20 decent applicants (of which 5 were pretty good) for $250 o so.

3np 6y ago

I actually do have several friends and other people in my network (some quite accomplished professionally) who are very active on LinkedIn, and there's not much shady about them. But yes, it's weird.

mumblemumble 6y ago

Well, that and colleagues of mine from over in the the marketing and sales departments, who can't understand why it takes me an average of 2 months to get around to accepting their connection requests.

treis 6y ago

Lots of people use it. The feed aspect of it is useless. But in terms of a network it's great. I've found 2 out of my last 3 jobs there. Assume it's also great for organic marketing as well where you target associates of your current clients.

x86_64Ubuntu 6y ago
So it's a digital rolodex. That's not terribly impressive for the weight of the name.
- JumpCrisscross 6y ago
  > it's a digital rolodex. That's not terribly impressive for the weight of the name. It's an automatically-updating and linked rolodex. Rolodexes tell you that you know X. They don't say who X knows.

mcv 6y ago

Not just shady ones. I notice a lot of legitimate recruiters find me on LinkedIn and it leads to real work for me. I personally avoid it like the plague, but I do keep my CV up to date there. (Actually it's out of date right now, but I'll update it when I start looking again.)

kyleblarson 6y ago

And virtue signaling.

dpc_pw 6y ago

I call it "LinkedIn is the saddest social network ever".

kimi 6y ago

I think Linkedin is quite useless as a social network - their business model selling your contacts to "digital strategists" who try to contact you. Most of the content is marketing spam, and nobody uses it. Still, when we happen to recruit, we get like 10-20 decent applicants (of which 5 were pretty good) for $250 o so.