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Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by jmye »

torben-friis wrote: post #6

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?

I was going to respond, because of course the site has value if that’s where my network is and that’s where everyone posts jobs. But I don’t think that’s what you’re asking.

I frankly have no idea who uses the social media aspects of the site. Some of the “career coaching” groups suggest posting constantly because it ups your visibility to recruiters, but thats only the content generation part. I’d guess some recruiters follow it?

But even with careful curation of my feed, I have no idea who’s spending more than 30 seconds seeing “oh, John/Jane got a new job, cool” and then logging off.

Maybe it’s people stuck trying to find work who think there might, somewhere in the noise, be some useful, additive signal?

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by quinndupont »

torben-friis wrote: post #6

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?

Desperate job seekers. Nobody wants LinkedIn.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by user_7832 »

alsetmusic wrote: post #19
port3000 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a social network that became socially acceptable to browse at work. It has all the negative attributes associated with a social network and none of the upsides (apart from the occasional recruiter message).

I've not understood why people wanted it to be a social network. That aspect always seemed bizarre to me until it had been true for long enough to stopped being strange. But this doesn't make sense to me either. I wouldn't load the site at work because I wouldn't want to signal to my employer that I was looking for another job. I very deliberately didn't accept invites from management at my last employer (small compa…

> I wouldn't want them to get a notification if I suddenly revised my profile because maybe I'm shopping around for a new job, for example.

If I'm not mistaken, LinkedIn has options for all of this. You can edit your profile with or without a notification post. You can select "show open to being hired only to people outside your company".

Not that I have great (or any) love for the platform, but if I understood you right, these things aren't really issues.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by itsthecourier »

torben-friis wrote: post #6

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?

to investigate people of interest

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by cjbgkagh »

alsetmusic wrote: post #19
port3000 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a social network that became socially acceptable to browse at work. It has all the negative attributes associated with a social network and none of the upsides (apart from the occasional recruiter message).

I've not understood why people wanted it to be a social network. That aspect always seemed bizarre to me until it had been true for long enough to stopped being strange. But this doesn't make sense to me either. I wouldn't load the site at work because I wouldn't want to signal to my employer that I was looking for another job. I very deliberately didn't accept invites from management at my last employer (small compa…

Microsoft wanted it to be a social network because they couldn’t buy Facebook. They did buy Yammer though.

A lot of the bad policies were implemented when getting LinkedIn ready for sale to boost the short term gains and maximize the sale price, once sold it was hard to reverse the policies in order to maintain a healthy market long term. They do kinda have a mini-monopoly / cornered market so they were able to milk that for money.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by thunky »

lpcvoid wrote: post #5
noitpmeder wrote: post #4

The fact that they hijack scrolling to artificially limit scroll speed is insane to me. Feels like I'm trying to navigate through molasses

Imagine the MBA that had this idea. This is peak, distilled Microslop engineering right there.

It's the user's fault. They vote for this crap with their attention. Junk sites like this shouldn't exist but they do amd aren't going anywhere until people stop using them.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by wombat-man »

torben-friis wrote: post #6

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?

I still use it to reach out to old colleagues or see what they're up to these days.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by subscribed »

torben-friis wrote: post #6

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?

Recruiters keep reaching out. I didn't have to seek a new job in perhaps last 15 years, all I had to do was to flip "looking for opportunities" on and start sorting out the messages and emails.

This works.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Post by catcowcostume »

torben-friis wrote: post #6

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 still the main place where recruiter post jobs and look for candidates. That's why.
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