How many of you are active on LinkedIn? God I hate it. Nothing but a bunch of people trying "inform" and "engage" by acting like politicians, writing in a manner so insincere as to appear as if it is satire, and humble bragging--or just outright bragging--about the most insignificant "achievement" possible. Oh, and a messaging system that nets me 20-50 unsolicited messages from vendors, sales people, or head hunters wanting me to connect and share with them my business needs.
How in the world is this a thing? Why do people find it so useful?
How many of you are active on LinkedIn? God I hate it. Nothing but a bunch of people trying "inform" and "engage" by acting like politicians, writing in a manner so insincere as to appear as if it is satire, and humble bragging--or just outright bragging--about the most insignificant "achievement" possible. Oh, and a messaging system that nets me 20-50 unsolicited messages from vendors, sales people, or head hunters wanting me to connect and share with them my business needs.
How in the world is this a thing? Why do people find it so useful?
It definitely does suck. It's decent for job searches, but there are definitely better options elsewhere. I'm sort of active on it for some work stuff, but I share your disdain for it.
It’s awful. The job titles that people make up to seem like a big deal on there…ugh.
@oneeyedundertaker Shhhhhhhhhhh.
My personal hatred is reserved for the fake ass "grinders" that work 30 hours a day, ignore their families and personal hygiene, but are going to shock the world.
Yeah, no.
It wreaks of political correctness, has an almost stepford wives feel about it, very cringy
How many of you are active on LinkedIn? God I hate it. Nothing but a bunch of people trying "inform" and "engage" by acting like politicians, writing in a manner so insincere as to appear as if it is satire, and humble bragging--or just outright bragging--about the most insignificant "achievement" possible. Oh, and a messaging system that nets me 20-50 unsolicited messages from vendors, sales people, or head hunters wanting me to connect and share with them my business needs.
How in the world is this a thing? Why do people find it so useful?
I'm a super user. 30K connections. AMA.
Would you tell a kid graduating from college looking for a job to focus on a LinkedIn profile, getting internships before graduation or something else such as go to grad school?
How in the world is this a thing? Why do people find it so useful?
Agreed. In the early days it was a useful tool, taking business networking to the next level, but quickly became another in a long line of web-based turd sandwiches. I can see how back then it was a thing, but I can't for the life of me see how it's still a thing.
A good friend will bail you out of jail, but your best friend will be sitting next to you in the cell saying "that was f***ing awesome"
You are such a dinosaur... Ask Me Anything (did you ever use Reddit?). As ALL4 mentioned, it used to be a helpful tool, but has devolved (like most social media platforms) into a cesspool of wannabees providing useless takes, political bickering, shitty ads all over the place, garbage video content and non-business Facebook-esque bullshit. THe amount of bots (lots of hot Asian chicks with generic names and little work history) an annoying spammers and scammers are out of control.
It's only redeeming qualities are the job search and application function is helpful, companies you follow produce unique content or important news updates that you won't get elsewhere and you can dive deep and build connections and relationships in a particular industry (like @joe_hoopsier and medtech).
Within a few years, the usage will be lower, though I predict the decline will be less than that of Facebook and Instagram.
The reason I started this thread is because I've offered personal secretary jobs to four of those Asian women and then they keep ghosting me! So they're bots? Guess that explains it.
You are such a dinosaur... Ask Me Anything (did you ever use Reddit?). As ALL4 mentioned, it used to be a helpful tool, but has devolved (like most social media platforms) into a cesspool of wannabees providing useless takes, political bickering, shitty ads all over the place, garbage video content and non-business Facebook-esque bullshit. THe amount of bots (lots of hot Asian chicks with generic names and little work history) an annoying spammers and scammers are out of control.
By the way, what's Reddit?
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