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You can't believe the HN crowd is on LinkedIn? First of all I completely, absolutely agree with everything you are saying about scummy behaviour, spam, etc. An
by freshhawk 12y ago
You can't believe the HN crowd is on LinkedIn?
First of all I completely, absolutely agree with everything you are saying about scummy behaviour, spam, etc. And yet they are basically average in that regard among social networking sites. But they provide a service that's much more useful to me than a maximally addictive feed of trivia. It's one of the few social networks I actually use because it makes me money and it's easy to mitigate all the harm. It's a completely pragmatic decision, not affected by how bad their implementation is.
And yes, of course you have your own site with professional details on there. That's just a given isn't it? LinkedIn isn't my main presence on the internet, I agree that would be a sad state of affairs for a tech-savvy person.
The most confusing thing to me about you being surprised is that of all the communities in the world, the one that has the biggest cross section of people responsible for social media having all that scummy behaviour you are complaining about might be HN. If you wanted to find the community with the largest number of that group combined with people who non-ironically refer to themselves as "hustlers" and spend a hell of a lot of time on LinkedIn then that is definitely HN. I'm not saying it's the majority or anything, but of all the "crowds" to expect to not be on LinkedIn ...
- timthorn 12y ago> LinkedIn isn't my main presence on the internet, I agree that would be a sad state of affairs for a tech-savvy person. Why would it be a sad state? Not all of us are interested in social technology, not all of us want to write content for a blog or website, and not all of us want to share the details of our lives with others online.
- freshhawk 12y agoI was referring to not having your own website, not other social networks. When I'm hiring I definitely don't expect technical people to care about social network crap or want to write content for a blog (although that would definitely be a plus if it had technical content). But not having your own website? That would be judged pretty harshly if I'm being honest. Maybe it's because I'm mostly doing this for jobs where the software is related to the internet and depends on a lot of open source software. If all you have online in your name is a LinkedIn profile then that signals a pretty profound disinterest in a lot of the things that would help them be a good fit.
- timthorn 12y agoWhat do you want me to put on my website? I'm not an active software dev these days but I think I can fairly well be described as technically savvy and do pretty complex things both for work and for fun. I do have my own domain, I host my own email, I am interested, I just don't see any need to have my own web presence.
- ulisesrmzroche 12y agoIt's about marketing. Since you don't do it for the money, you don't have the same problems.