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Re: Stop Using LinkedIn

#11

Post by girmad » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 6:02 PM UTC

To make this work, you need to get the avg LinkedIn user to opt out. I bet this page is not very effective at achieving that right now.

To get the average user to change their behavior, you must show them:

- why doing nothing will be bad for them (try to show how it will impact their daily life)

- why doing what you recommend will be good for them

  + without putting in much effort or money

  + very quickly

There are lot of angry people on the internet, the challenge is to make me care.

Re: Stop Using LinkedIn

#12

Post by yafujifide » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 6:02 PM UTC

Twitter should be on the list of alternatives. I have found twitter to be a more valuable professional tool than LinkedIn (though I doubt my experience is like others).

Re: Stop Using LinkedIn

#13

Post by ruperp » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 6:02 PM UTC

feverishaaron wrote: post #3

This reads like an Anonymous diatribe. Clear language will yield better results.

It's a play on the famous "Infamy Speech" by FDR. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infamy_Speech

Re: Stop Using LinkedIn

#14

Post by darkstar999 » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 6:03 PM UTC

sagivo wrote: post #9

linkedin: "someone just viewed your profile." me: "who?" linkedin: "can't tell you."

"pay me and I'll tell you"

Re: Stop Using LinkedIn

#15

Post by hapless » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 6:03 PM UTC

LinkedIn, like Twitter, is limiting API usage to specific use cases that dovetail with LinkedIn's own apps, instead of competing with them. The restrictions were imposed yesterday. The authors of this manifesto think that's a bad thing, but they don't give me, the reader, any more information.

Why is it a bad thing?

What cool stuff am I missing by using LinkedIn and its restrictive API?

Why should I put effort into an alternative?

Re: Stop Using LinkedIn

#16

Post by jwiley » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 6:03 PM UTC

It would be helpful to have real-world examples of who is losing out due to this and why...beyond the entire free peoples of the internet (some of whom I'm sure do not use linked in).

Re: Stop Using LinkedIn

#17

Post by nostromo » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 6:04 PM UTC

This article is more informative about why they are upset with LinkedIn:

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/linkedin-api/

tl;dr: LinkedIn is pulling a Twitter.

I can't say I'm surprised. It's a common pattern: Step 1: plant a nice open garden that attracts lots of people. Step 2: put wall around garden.

Re: Stop Using LinkedIn

#18

Post by friendlyguy85 » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 6:04 PM UTC

>Stop using Linkedin >Here is a list of 16 sites where you need to be registered at teh same time to have an access to the same audience as on linkedin

Re: Stop Using LinkedIn

#19

Post by WalterSear » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 6:04 PM UTC

All alternatives miss the main reason that people use linked in, which is it's social graph.

Re: Stop Using LinkedIn

#20

Post by arcatek » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 6:05 PM UTC

hapless wrote: post #15

LinkedIn, like Twitter, is limiting API usage to specific use cases that dovetail with LinkedIn's own apps, instead of competing with them. The restrictions were imposed yesterday. The authors of this manifesto think that's a bad thing, but they don't give me, the reader, any more information. Why is it a bad thing? What cool stuff am I missing by using LinkedIn and its restrictive API? Why should I put effort into a…

I wonder if it has to do with the MASSIVE amount of head hunter spam that we may get from LinkedIn. Maybe they actually restrict its access for the Greater Good?