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Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn

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Re: Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn

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Post by thefounder »

dm33tri wrote: post #52
Nextgrid wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LinkedIn has value as a rolodex and should've stopped at that. The social media features are, just like any mainstream social network, a cesspool. If you want to use LinkedIn and keep your sanity, I suggest disabling all notifications except the email notifications for new messages and then don't log back in unless you get an e-mail and you need to respond to that person.

Easy in Russia because LinkedIn website and apps are blocked and enabling VPN just to scroll the feed is not worth it Maybe ban it in hosts and unban when needed?

I don't think Putin's censorship is the solution. After all you have skillsnet.ru

Re: Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn

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Post by scarface74 »

arexxbifs wrote: post #60

LinkedIn began as something that actually seemed useful, but it long since turned into Facebook for middle management types for feeding their echo chamber with self help stories and 10 Things All Successful People Do. I have not come across a single serious recruiter there for years and I closed my account 6 months ago or so. Perhaps it's still useful for freelancers.

Three of the Big 5 tech companies (no Netflix doesn’t count) had internal recruiters randomly reached out to me in the last three months while the local job market has cratered. Without LinkedIn, I wouldn’t have even pursued the (remote) job I am starting in July with $BigTech.

Even before that all of the local external recruiters I’ve found have been through LinkedIn.

Re: Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn

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Post by growlist »

Me too. The level of corporate virtue signalling is beyond obnoxious to the point of becoming risible, but worse, I started seeing former colleagues that I respect buying into this Stepford Wives crap.

Re: Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn

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Post by joyj2nd »

Relevant and formerly on HN:

https://theoutline.com/post/5495/how-to-beat-linked-in-the-g...

I closed my account over 8 years ago. Sometimes a business partner of mine is bitching that I don't have a profile but that's about it. I am not very successful but the successful people I know (speak XX-XXX MM USD) don't have a profile there.

Re: Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn

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Post by kubanczyk »

eeZah7Ux wrote: post #54

Excellent points: > Fear of scarcity. Not having a job when you need a job is a terrible feeling, I get it. It's why I joined LinkedIn in the first place. > Fear of missing out. Maybe some magical opportunity might trickle down through your network of connections? The truth is, if you're relying on LinkedIn to manage your network, those relationships are thin as tinsel. > The corporate work culture survives on people…

Yes, the last point hit especially hard when he continued about "outsourcing" the choice of my values.

Quoting Vonnegut: "we are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

Re: Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn

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Post by stared »

BrentOzar wrote: post #6

If you ever want to become an independent consultant, LinkedIn has a value that won't be immediately apparent to you. While YOU might hate it, there are some business folks who search LinkedIn first. They want to see consultants/contractors who've been used by other people in their network, been recommended, etc. I know it sounds odd to us - I would neeeever search LinkedIn first - but I've heard from prospects who h…

For me it's similarish.

While I don't like it too much, when I consider hiring someone it is the first place for a background check. It saved me once from a really, really bad hire (due to common colleagues).

At the same time - I am an independent consultant, and yet - I am not sure if there were a single contract that came through LinkedIn directly. Quite ironically, Facebook was much more productive with that respect.

Sure, I get a lot of messages, but rarely about offers, I am interested in.

Re: Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn

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Post by anthonybennis »

ThePhysicist wrote: post #28

From a professional standpoint LinkedIn gave me a lot of value for free so I'm mostly feeling positive about it, but I agree that like any social network it has downsides and can lead to psychological stress. Personally I live by the mantra that "scrolling is dangerous", i.e. I try to never interact with social media or news platforms that incite me to scroll down a feed of algorithmically curated news or updates, as…

I always exit HN with a positive mental head space.

The discussion is generally informed, balanced and insightful . I wonder how the positive and respectful space here may be reproduced in other social media platforms.

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