Building a social network is hard, building a social network for professionals is even harder. It's already tricky to convince your friends to use a different

Building a social network is hard, building a social network for professionals is even harder. It's already tricky to convince your friends to use a different messenger, it's even harder to convince your coworker, boss or other peers to join a new network and putting your reputation on the line of being the person sending out invites. Linkedin isn't great, but it does the job, everyone is there and I guess nobody is spending hours on the platform except recruiters or influencers. As a tool to have an address book of professional acquaintances for getting an intro, referral or reference in the future it works well enough.