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Your comment is fair but you need to qualify a bit. You don't feel people should use LinkedIn as their defacto online resume - that's fair. But to brush off Li
by waterside81 12y ago
Your comment is fair but you need to qualify a bit. You don't feel people should use LinkedIn as their defacto online resume - that's fair.
But to brush off LinkedIn entirely is naive. I'm a "hacker" but I use it all the time. When I identify a potential customer, I need to look up who to contact there. And I need to know their email address. LinkedIn lets me search companies & job titles so I can find the right person. That's very useful.
- scrollaway 12y agoI've been in your situation in two different occasions; having to contact someone through LinkedIn. Beware: Anecdotal evidence follows. In both cases I've had no reply. I eventually got through to one of them (by googling them better a few days later) and eventually got to ask them why I didn't get a reply - turns out the message went straight to spam and that "LinkedIn just sends me crap emails so I ignore them when I see them".
- danielweber 12y agoI use LinkedIn to find out which person in my contact list I should contact outside of LinkedIn to get an introduction. It's extremely useful for that.