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Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
A friend and I have a mini-hobby of sharing these with each other under the title of “Today in Thanking Myself”. The highest level are the ones where people pimp out their own families for LinkedIn karma
This Twitter account does a great job curating these: https://twitter.com/BestofLinkedin
Thank you! I was actually considering starting a blog to collect them, glad to see that someone has stepped up and done it already.
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#173Linkedin became cancer. Facebook-level. Why does a "professional networking" need posts with reactions? Why does the algo recommend me things of other people which I don't follow at at??
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#174It's the faux-thentic trope pieces on LinkedIn that annoy me. "I was working so hard I forgot to be me" or "after years of constant success my daughter showed me what success really means". Apparently it means getting likes from strangers. And then there's the business tall tales: "I hired a guy with no qualifications other than a big heart and now he's running a multinational". "I made 10k job applications and lande…
LinkedIn is now just Facebook which opens at Work and China. It's sad because I did find some quality talent from LinkedIn during my recruitment drives for previous startup couple of years back, Also since someone looking for a job is de-facto expected to have a LinkedIn profile helped that. But now when I recently logged in, I saw something akin to sharing video status like in other social-media chat apps and my pro…
Microsoft has suspended new Chinese accounts on LinkedIn. I expect that they'll eventually be forced to completely separate the Chinese LinkedIn from the rest of the world. Can't have anyone mentioning Tiananmen Square on June 4.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/11/tech/linkedin-china-microsoft...
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#175Medium seems more aggressive with their paywall lately, but clearing the cookies works fine. It occurs to me that a useful browser feature would have automatic "never save cookies ever" and then have a whitelist to add sites that I want to retain cookies on. The majority of random sites I visit have no need for cookies ultimately..
> It occurs to me that a useful browser feature would have automatic "never save cookies ever" and then have a whitelist to add sites that I want to retain cookies on.
That's fairly easy to accomplish. I keep my ~/.mozilla in git and essentially git reset it on startup. Everything I didn't explicitly commit into it - gone!
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#176A lot of the comments seem to suggest that good quality content is missing from LinkedIn and other mainstream social media platforms.
I wonder what people consider to be good quality content?
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
A friend and I have a mini-hobby of sharing these with each other under the title of “Today in Thanking Myself”. The highest level are the ones where people pimp out their own families for LinkedIn karma
This Twitter account does a great job curating these: https://twitter.com/BestofLinkedin
Thanks. I liked this one.
https://twitter.com/BestofLinkedin/status/139178233788132966...
And this:
https://twitter.com/BestofLinkedin/status/138491328852230963...
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#178"But start scrolling through your newsfeed,"
Why would you do that? I've posted my resume there, LinkedIn tricked me ("do you know these peoples") into "connecting" with former colleagues and recruiters can find me. That works well; the rest is rubbish and I don't know why they bother.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Medium is the message, and the message is "it's time we make this official". There's plenty going for LinkedIn here, given how unhip it is. Including some reasonably popular threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27042151 https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=linkedin.com
I stand corrected for LinkedIn not being here. > The Medium is the message, and the message is "it's time we make this official". I’m not sure I understand. To me medium is just an easy way to get a blog started. Nothing more to it. People often complain about their business model, but then people here always complain about any business model, or lack of a business model.
Sure it's a platform, just like LikedIn is. Often the content published on these is seen as rather shallow, no doubt due to their popularity.
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#180LinkedIn influences are an upgrade over LinkedIn Groups, such that groups are overrun with spam from recruiters. Which is to say LinkedIn Influences are not as bad as some alternatives.