One interesting aspect of LinkedIn I wasn't expecting - when my title changed to CTO the nature of the recruiter spam was turned on its head a bit. It went from

One interesting aspect of LinkedIn I wasn't expecting - when my title changed to CTO the nature of the recruiter spam was turned on its head a bit. It went from recruiters trying to hire me, to recruiters trying to get me employees. I've since changed jobs to one with a less pretentious (I suppose it was a self-imposed "demotion") title and I'm getting the "old" kind of recruiter spam again.