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I’m just collecting people and use it to contact folks and figure out who knows who. It’s like a 1980 Rolodex. The content is useless unless you are into readi
by Spooky23 2y ago
I’m just collecting people and use it to contact folks and figure out who knows who. It’s like a 1980 Rolodex.
The content is useless unless you are into reading business and self help books. Nothing wrong with it, but learning about whatever is “humbling” people is meaningless to me.
- xtracto 2y agoThe content is utter trash. It's the "synthetic" look-how-happy-i-am Facebook equivalent but for work life. But, I use it pretty heavily to hire people. I basically paste an image of the JD of what I'm looking for, and ask my network to refer anyone they know who might be interested. I found two AMAZING devs who were outnof my network that way.
- caseyy 2y agoThe content is interesting. It’s not as negative, cynical and aggressive as on much of social media. But people have still ruined it because they push self-promotion and promotion of their companies way too hard. Unless I am too picky, which may very well be the case, it feels to me like there simply is no way to have a healthy and large social network.
- vidarh 2y agoIt's not as negative, cynical, and aggressive in large part because people are self-promoting in a work context and most people are self-aware enough to understand it'd have a very negative effect on their careers if they came across as aggressive and controversial in that context. But yeah, it does also mean LinkedIn has huge amounts of vapid, self-congratulatory "look at how successful I am, you should hire me / buy my services / join my company" content. I look at it as the Yellow Pages. I engage when I need services or need to find a company to work for. I don't expect editorial content - I expect wall-to-wall ads and at best "advertorials".