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I'm routinely surprised by how religiously some of my LinkedIn connections update their profiles. For many of them, it's surely their primary social network. L
by incision 14y ago
I'm routinely surprised by how religiously some of my LinkedIn connections update their profiles. For many of them, it's surely their primary social network.
LinkedIn is basically a contact list for me. I've always found the site cluttered and a bit clumsy, not something I want to use. Though, I do get some amusement out of seeing people predictably check my profile after meeting for the first time.
Things like the newish endorsement feature actually bother me. It's all very gamey, counters and "XP bars" everywhere begging your effort to make them increment.
I certainly understand such carrots to induce more people to make more connections, have more engagement with the site and ideally drop $240-900/yr. for premium accounts.
Personally, I'd be more inclined to do that if I thought connections, endorsements, profile views and whatnot were actually meaningful.
As it is, the only thing that seems to demonstrate any real effort/connection are recommendations which are given no more priority in the activity feed than endorsements and appear towards the bottom of profiles.
- corin_ 14y agoThe new skill endorsements are hilariously pointless - back when I had it enabled I didn't see a single person endorse me for skills they actually know about, but plenty of people were using it pointlessly. People I know but haven't worked directly with in those areas. I remember I had a meeting a month ago with two people I'd never met before, a day later we were connections, a day later they both endorsed me for a bunch of stuff from "PR" to "events management" - how did they even think they could justify clicking those things for me? However LinkedIn is still pretty good at letting you get what you want out of it. I've not yet spoken to anyone who doesn't share my/your view of "these skill endorsements are hilariously dumb", and consequently we've disabled them - no longer are they seen on my profile, nor do I get emails about people endorsing me. Number of profile views isn't meaningful, but who viewed your profile can be - I'm one of the ones dropping $500/yr on my account, I'd say 60% of my reasoning is for the InMails, 20% is seeing exactly who viewed my profile, 20% is that whether it's logical or not, people who don't know you do look at the little premium badge on your profile and think very slightly differently of you.
- JacobAldridge 14y agoI figured many of my pointless endorsements came from people clicking "sure, whatever" on LinkedIn's "You should endorse X for Y" pop up, probably just to make it go away.
- trafficlight 14y agoI only get endorsements from people who have no idea what I really do.
- amorphid 14y agoTrafficlight, amorphid has endorsed you in crime fighting. Return the favor! Does amorphid know organic cat grooming?
- cpeterso 14y agoThis is my favorite skill endorsement: "Does Brendan Eich know about JavaScript?" https://twitter.com/andreasgal/status/298853913237528577/photo/1 https://twitter.com/andreasgal/status/298853913237528577/pho...
- pge 14y agoI'm constantly entertained by the number of people that endorse me either for (1) skills I wouldnt claim to have or (2) skills that I may have but they would not be in a position to judge.