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Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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I don't understand who uses that network anymore. Everytime I login it's all ai generated stories next to ai generated flavor images of people sounding like a parody of themselves ("what taking my kids to school taught me about business scaling").

Out of all places to doomscroll, why choose the one that feels like an episode of Severance?

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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I don't understand who uses that network anymore. Everytime I login it's all ai generated stories next to ai generated flavor images of people sounding like a parody of themselves ("what taking my kids to school taught me about business scaling"). Out of all places to doomscroll, why choose the one that feels like an episode of Severance?

It's legitimately useful for networking, and also for keeping track of professional events.

On the other side of the equation, it's also useful for sales teams using LI Sales Navigator as a lead enrichment platform.

This doesn't excuse any of the numerous dark patterns in the app, or the memory consumption.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Now I'm retired, linkedin's daily games are a fun way to do a little brain tai chi. Queens https://www.linkedin.com/games/queens/ is my favorite, although my solve time is consistently about twice the average apparently.

I have to admit that this is also what keeps me coming back to LinkedIn. My brain is dangerously easy to motivate by dangling a virtual leaderboard in front of it.
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