I'm not on LinkedIn because of the recruiting. Most of the recruiting messages I've received have been either friendly (I tell them "No thanks, let's talk in a

I'm not on LinkedIn because of the recruiting. Most of the recruiting messages I've received have been either friendly (I tell them "No thanks, let's talk in a year or so") or so ham-handed and over the top that I've passed the howlers around. (The only time in 35 years that I found a job through a recruiter, it was a train wreck. I doubt the recruiters on LinkedIn are much different). I'm on LinkedIn because it's fun to find and talk to prior cow-orkers without involving the privacy catastrophe that is Facebook.