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Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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Let's be real, LinkedIn is full of LinkedIn Lunatics but pretty much all mainstream social media is pretty shit. They're just different flavors of shit. LinkedIn: bad. Facebook: bad. Twitter: I literally think it contributed to the collapse of discourse and rise of shallow thought / rejection of expertise. I'm not going to list more because the theme is, you guessed it, they're bad. Google+ had promise in that the ma…

I kind of love Linkedin tbh. It's where you get jobs. They created Kafka. Definitly don't spend a lot of time there though just more if you need a new job.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

#252

Let's be real, LinkedIn is full of LinkedIn Lunatics but pretty much all mainstream social media is pretty shit. They're just different flavors of shit. LinkedIn: bad. Facebook: bad. Twitter: I literally think it contributed to the collapse of discourse and rise of shallow thought / rejection of expertise. I'm not going to list more because the theme is, you guessed it, they're bad. Google+ had promise in that the ma…

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Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

#253

The juxtaposition between this and "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder" is probably the best one I've seen in a long time

We now have simple chat apps capable of doing almost anything LinkedIn does while using under 100 MB of RAM.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

#254

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?

That kind of supposedly successful people who you can find on "normal" platforms as well. The difference is that they wrap everything in this weird language.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/23/corporate-s... & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47274676 discussion

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01918...

It might be not obvious for those living in English-speaking countries but amount of native words replaced by this corporate jargon is irritating

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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> destroy, their own LIVELIHOOD Do you have examples of such occasions when the linkedin post was actually the cause?

No, but as I've said below, this isn't about what will actually strongly happen, but what I think people think. I could be wrong here.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

#256

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?

Very few people with LinkedIn profiles read the social feed. Even fewer post things to it. The majority use LinkedIn only for job searching and keeping contacts. I do some times wonder if any hiring managers see a lot of LinkedIn social post activity as a positive thing. The few times we’ve interviewed candidates who had a lot of LinkedIn posting activity it was considered a risk: We could go through their LinkedIn a…

> Very few people with LinkedIn profiles read the social feed. Even fewer post things to it.

Yes, but many of the people who matter in professional domains do. Much like all social media, the prolific few who do post have outsized influence, and engaging with them can often be to your benefit.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

#257

The juxtaposition between this and "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder" is probably the best one I've seen in a long time

We now have simple chat apps capable of doing almost anything LinkedIn does while using under 100 MB of RAM.

A probe collecting data in space takes <70 kB of memory. I fail to see how this statement should make me feel happy

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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> destroy, their own LIVELIHOOD Do you have examples of such occasions when the linkedin post was actually the cause?

My postings on LinkedIn have definitely had direct consequences in my professional life. I consider them all good because ultimately if you get upset by the way I behave then that's probably going to be true if we work together also. Sometimes people like to tell me that I'm very authentic and it's clear that I'm not trying to suck up to anyone, which they respect. Some people quietly retreat from me and I find out l…

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Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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As much as you all dislike LinkedIn and the cringy posts, keep in mind that for certain parts of the market it is >the< main professional forum. It is where your investors live, and their capital providers live. So, play nice, yeah?

Yep, I've co-founded several companies and sold them for near $1B in aggregate. My investors and customers are on there, sometimes posting nice things about us. So I give it a thumbs-up and move on. Nothing worth rage-bating about. Mostly I go there to play linkedin.com/games.

Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

#260

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?

Very few people with LinkedIn profiles read the social feed. Even fewer post things to it. The majority use LinkedIn only for job searching and keeping contacts. I do some times wonder if any hiring managers see a lot of LinkedIn social post activity as a positive thing. The few times we’ve interviewed candidates who had a lot of LinkedIn posting activity it was considered a risk: We could go through their LinkedIn a…

I dunno if that is really true. I've started posting technical things on LinkedIn because it gets pretty good engagement from real people that I know. I've also seen some great technical posts there.

Definitely outnumbered by the inspirational slop, but I think it is a real mix and really depends who you connect with.

Anyway yeah the main point of LinkedIn is to get jobs. I've got several through recruiter spam.

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