Totally agree with your concerns. There's also another piece to this that I've run into: Deliberately focusing my profile on specific skills increased the numbe

Totally agree with your concerns. There's also another piece to this that I've run into: Deliberately focusing my profile on specific skills increased the number of recruiters that contact me for job opportunities. One might say that this is just marketing on my part, but with LinkedIn, your profile actually functions like a webpage would where you need to optimize the keywords and information for their search engine. By being more focused, you rank higher in searches.