Politics and war discussions This is true, they pull people in, but it's the why of it that counts. LinkedIn, once it became the defacto job board, had no whe

Politics and war discussions This is true, they pull people in, but it's the why of it that counts. LinkedIn, once it became the defacto job board, had no where to grow. They need more users, more members, more engagement, so that their numbers look ever greater, and therefore their stock continues to rise. A plateau is a horror to such companies. It's never enough to do a thing, and do it well. Even if every person on the planet logged on daily, and spent 16 hours doing things, someone at LinkedIn would be going bananas because it wasn't 16.2 hrs. And thus, it turns to trash.