LinkedIn is useful to network with recruiters and have yourself be 'available' in the job market - basically a phone directory for resumes. But I definitely do

LinkedIn is useful to network with recruiters and have yourself be 'available' in the job market - basically a phone directory for resumes. But I definitely do not care for its news feed or other social features, which are simply either marketing/advertising posts or political posts these days. It has become especially bad with the overt injection of progressive politics into many companies' practices in this last year, particularly their outward-facing public relations, all of which is leaking into LinkedIn and turning it into Facebook or Twitter.