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This. I see Google + as being much, much more of a LinkedIn killer than a Facebook killer. I find that for all the purposes that LinkedIn WANTS me to go to th
by JPKab 14y ago
This. I see Google + as being much, much more of a LinkedIn killer than a Facebook killer. I find that for all the purposes that LinkedIn WANTS me to go to their site and use it (Special Interest groups, etc) I end up going to Google + for. The whole "sharing with different circles" thing is very intuitive, and makes it very easy for me to selectively share things with A)coworkers, B) the public, and C)people in my field of interest that are possibly future employers, coworkers, or project partners.
LinkedIn tries hard to do this and fails. They were there first, but they are now, for the vast majority of my coworkers, a place you go to update your resume or look at a shitty recruiter's broadly targeted message.
I get nothing out of the groups, because they are filled with annoying recruiter spam rather than actual articles of interest.
Message to Google: Start letting users upload resumes, parse out the data (you are better at this than other companies) automatically create profiles, and let users select which aspects of their profile/resume they want to share and with who. You have 95% of the capability already present.
Get to work, because I find LinkedIn to be mediocre (despite my GREAT, GREAT respect for the data specialists at the company and their developer's work on API's)