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Linkedin is a marketing platform where you are the product. Use it as a tool if you need to but try not to forget that. If you feel something's horrible there
by Inhibit 5y ago
Linkedin is a marketing platform where you are the product. Use it as a tool if you need to but try not to forget that.
If you feel something's horrible there it's likely by design and within that context.
(edit: you're to you are)
- truth_ 5y ago> where you are the product Isn't this true for all major social media platforms?
- Inhibit 5y agoMostly. But it still seems (to me) that people have the expectation that it provides utility of some sort first and marketing second. I'm unsure how other platforms being identical in that regard moderates the statement. I still feel a reminder is helpful.
- Ekaros 5y agoYes and no. On other media platforms your behaviour and activities(both posts and add clicks) are the product. On other hand on LinkedIn you yourself is the product. And not in the influencer way.
- truth_ 5y agoYour point is fair. Your communication metadata, your choices, you age, gender, location, and many other things are indeed products of companies like Facebook. But in a way, you are, too. Because the mere presence of yours draws some other people to that platform. And celebrities who are famous outside of social media, are definitely more products themselves rather than the data associated with them. On the other hand, on dating apps like Tinder, you yourself are the product in addition to any other information they might monetize in numerous ways.
- sprkwd 5y agoNot mastodon.