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Linkedin is a hellscape but it has its usefulness once in a blue moon.

• twelve40 4y ago
  funny enough, it's probably the least hellscape of a social network by now. At worst it's just a bit spammy and dull, all others are dumpster fires by now
  • midoridensha 4y ago
    LinkedIn is great; I really don't see the problem with it. 1. It has your resume posted for recruiters to see. You get emails from recruiters scouting you for jobs you might never have found on your own. Many recruiters are useless 3rd-party recruiters, but some are useful 1st-party recruiters. 2. You can keep in contact with your old coworkers; people you aren't close enough to have as friends through some other venue. 3. It doesn't actively spread conspiracy theories and destroy society. You get some recruiter spam, and that's it. The site is nothing more than a tool to aid your professional life and career, and it doesn't try to be anything more than that. What's the problem, exactly?
• tdeck 4y ago
  When I worked at Google a lot of people didn't have LinkedIn. I guess because they'd been there so long and expected to stay for life.