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I enjoy using LinkedIn Why? My timeline is exclusively about professional interests. Blog posts, interesting papers, etc. Sure there's marketing crap in there,

I enjoy using LinkedIn Why? My timeline is exclusively about professional interests. Blog posts, interesting papers, etc. Sure there's marketing crap in there, but that's also nice as I get to see what my contacts are building / hustling. I find it inspiring. After all, most of them I know as actual people doing cool stuff. Meanwhile Twitter/Facebook are negativity cesspools, it's hard to spend much time there.

minsc__and__boo 6y ago
That's because people's careers are tied to their Linkedin profiles, so naturally you're only going to get the most positive, shiny things being propped up on it. This feature also inhibits sharing though, which is why Linkedin has such an artificial feel about it.
totemandtoken 6y ago
It would be kind of cool to see a more reddit-y or hackernews-y professional networking site. Like, I'm glad I have a professional connection to my friends who've went into healthcare, but honestly I have no intellectual curiosity about medicine and I ignore it if it comes on my feed. I'd rather see the stuff you're talking about - interesting papers, blog posts, etc - in a professional context with possibly the opportunity to network. The culture is somewhat here on hackernews, although more geared towards startups and computer science, but I'd like to see it available for other professional fields.