Who is going to surrender its entire professional network of people to microsoft?
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Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
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Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#262LinkedIn 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…
> 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!".
There are two ways of looking at linkedin:
* a) linkedin, the job listing service used by headhunters to fill positions,
* b) linkedin, the makeshift pseudo-facebook/myspace/instagram alternative used and abused by career-oriented attention-seekers.
This blog post focuses exclusively on b) while completely ignoring a).
I know people who landed jobs in FANGs just because they kept their linkedin profile up-to-date, even though they didn't even posted a single message and barely had any "like"-type interaction with any type of content. Personally, I've landed my past two or three tech jobs through linkedin, and I barely use it.
I also tried other like-minded services like Glassdoor or stackoverflow jobs, but at least to me those are a dumpster fire when compared with linkedin. Specially Glassdoor.
You get cringe content if you're using it to produce and consume cringe content. Others like me are quite happy with the benefit we take from it.
Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#263I feel like TeamBlind is the exact opposite of LinkedIn -- no positivity, no one cares about mission or whatever, the #1 thing is TC and WLB, and everyone is anonymous. And yet its posts are much more honest, candid and just overall useful than those of LinkedIn.
A little too honest, at times. To the point where when you interact with your coworkers in non-anonymous settings, you start to wonder if each person is actually one of the sexist/racist/homophobic/transphobic/anti-vaxxer people you've seen on Blind.
I don't use non-anonymous social media these days so I don't see what my collegues act like online. But if my experience in real life is anything to go by then those people are happy to wear their anti-vax colours on their sleeve, even at work.
Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#264Maybe it's me. Maybe I'm just getting old and tired. Maybe I'm just sick of the constant trolling, yelling and generally lots of people trying to out-asshole one another on so, so much of the internet. But I don't mind LinkedIn. I find the cynicism on display here very sad. Sure, there are plenty of narcissists and vapid people posting on LinkedIn. So? At least they're posting "inspirational" stuff, and you know what…
LinkedIn is to career-focused grown ups what Instagram is to those fragile about their appearance.
Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#265Once I'm a billionaire, it's the first thing I'll do after paying for WinRar: deleting my LinkedIn account. I never respond to anything, just keeping it around for now for the connections. I recently checked the inbox and noticed something very weird. It showed a list of recruiters that had sent me a message and their profile picture. There were about 15 on screen. All 15 were hot white blond women in their mid twent…
A friend calls LinkedIn “the reverse Tinder”: where hot women write to nerds only to be ignored
That's funny and well put. But are the women real would be my question?
Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
This is getting too close to LinkedIn. I’m out…:)
You may enjoy the book Hold My Blackberry.
Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#267Because linkedin has more equal representation of mbti types, and not dominated by INTx.
Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#268Maybe it's me. Maybe I'm just getting old and tired. Maybe I'm just sick of the constant trolling, yelling and generally lots of people trying to out-asshole one another on so, so much of the internet. But I don't mind LinkedIn. I find the cynicism on display here very sad. Sure, there are plenty of narcissists and vapid people posting on LinkedIn. So? At least they're posting "inspirational" stuff, and you know what…
It's more like, the positivity that LinkedIn promotes is weirdly toxic if you take it at face value. (Everything in my life is an exciting journey, so why is your life so boring, reader?)
Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#269Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#270Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every community slides into its own stereotype like becoming a caricature of itself, but it's not objectively a bad thing, just strange to outsiders while the regulars are just fine with HN as it is. Oops, I mean LinkedIn.
Show HN: LinkedIn created over 1 weekend (written in Rust, uses CSS instead of JS)
JavaScript bad!
(page is just a rando blog post so yeah it doesn’t need it, and it uses JavaScript…)