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Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

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Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

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Post by exdsq »

ALittleLight wrote: post #75
hluska wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YES! AMEN! It reminds of the time I was going to a job interview, saw a homeless dude and went for a coffee with him. Turns out he wasn’t homeless, he was just CTO of a funded startup. The same startup I was interviewing for. We rebuilt the whole app over coffee and they named the company after me. (It’s not directly named after me, but the company name and my name have vowels and consonants.) Remember to ask homeles…

I really was once in a meeting where a homeless guy had his face against the window peering in from the outside. While we were discussing what, if anything to do about it, someone recognized the homeless guy as our corporate lawyer. In fact, he wasn't homeless at all, just disheveled. We went outside and brought him in as he was supposed to be attending this meeting.

There was a homeless guy peering in. As a group you noticed his attention to detail, a skill important to a good lawyer. You unanimously agreed to invite him in and offer him a job as a corporate lawyer. He's now the CEO. His name? Jeff Bezos.

The biggest advantage of someone with no experience is they don't know what's scary, stupid, or impossible. So they end up doing magic.

#HireNoExperience #TakeRisks #PoorNowLaw

Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

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Post by sg47 »

exdsq wrote: post #7

LinkedIn probably has a net benefit for your career by keeping up to date and checking the messages once a week, but I cannot get over the awkwardness of seeing total BS stories and thousands of replies saying "YES! AMEN!". "I was running late to an interview this morning but stopped to help a man who fell off of his bike and fixed it up for him. Afterwards I bought him a coffee and talked about life. He mentioned ho…

Every LinkedIn self-congratulatory post

Author: In a position of power Poor Schmuck: Desperate for a job so that they can keep their apt, eat food Author: Takes pity on the poor schmuck Poor Schmuck: Works like a slave to have basic necessities Author: Gloats about how they unearthed a gem Author: Lesson from this incident

Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

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Post by maxk42 »

I imagine it's kinda what it must be like living in the CCP: Everyone is self-censoring and putting forward a fake face in hopes of appealing to some nebulous authority that may or may not be watching. Facebook is becoming more and more like this which is why people are finally leaving en masse. Any network based on censorship is doomed to be replaced by one where people feel like they can be themselves.

Will something replace LinkedIn one day?

Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

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Post by TrainedMonkey »

exdsq wrote: post #7

LinkedIn probably has a net benefit for your career by keeping up to date and checking the messages once a week, but I cannot get over the awkwardness of seeing total BS stories and thousands of replies saying "YES! AMEN!". "I was running late to an interview this morning but stopped to help a man who fell off of his bike and fixed it up for him. Afterwards I bought him a coffee and talked about life. He mentioned ho…

You know the funniest thing about the story above is that after you remove the sarcasm it is plausible... just not in the countries where everything is a car ride away and 1.5m of a local currency is a lot of money.

Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

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Post by tiborsaas »

willhinsa wrote: post #8

The thing that's been around the longest that always bugged me was: Getting endorsed for skills by people who have no ability to evaluate my competency at those skills. It's so shallow and badly designed at its job. But like every social network out there, it's buoyed by its inertia and network effects, and will last far longer than it should given its quality beyond the size of its network of users.

We used to troll each other with my friends by endorsing with Drupal skills :)

Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

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Post by Bromeo »

willhinsa wrote: post #8

The thing that's been around the longest that always bugged me was: Getting endorsed for skills by people who have no ability to evaluate my competency at those skills. It's so shallow and badly designed at its job. But like every social network out there, it's buoyed by its inertia and network effects, and will last far longer than it should given its quality beyond the size of its network of users.

The best is when the prompt is something like: "Who would you go to for a question about /mathematics/" and then shows me four people who all have a PhD related to math and science...

Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

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Post by dalmo3 »

underwater wrote: post #32

There is a huge irony to Twitter using LinkedIn as a punching bag. Twitter is full of people pretending to be cool and popular and witty by doing things like making fun of LinkedIn posts for being fake.

And the irony goes one level deeper...

(Or two if you're reading this)

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