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Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn

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Re: Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn

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Post by aivosha »

ThePhysicist wrote: post #28

From a professional standpoint LinkedIn gave me a lot of value for free so I'm mostly feeling positive about it, but I agree that like any social network it has downsides and can lead to psychological stress. Personally I live by the mantra that "scrolling is dangerous", i.e. I try to never interact with social media or news platforms that incite me to scroll down a feed of algorithmically curated news or updates, as…

All these mechanisms are not 100%. They are averaged around "an average" person as all these things are. I would argue that anybody that realizes the true intention poses enough intuition to stay away from it. Its a tool. Use parts of it you need and dont pay attention to the rest. Its not hard. If it is hard - be thankful it revealed something about you that you want to work on overcoming.

Re: Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn

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Post by bonoboTP »

anthonybennis wrote: post #110
ThePhysicist wrote: post #28

From a professional standpoint LinkedIn gave me a lot of value for free so I'm mostly feeling positive about it, but I agree that like any social network it has downsides and can lead to psychological stress. Personally I live by the mantra that "scrolling is dangerous", i.e. I try to never interact with social media or news platforms that incite me to scroll down a feed of algorithmically curated news or updates, as…

I always exit HN with a positive mental head space. The discussion is generally informed, balanced and insightful . I wonder how the positive and respectful space here may be reproduced in other social media platforms.

I think it's the people and the nature of the "hacker" topics. You need a certain amount of attention span to read plain text comments, enjoy a front page with no images, you need patience to learn programming and tech stuff. You need some explicit thinking and less knee jerk reactions. There is some actual object level to discuss, some objective technical things, not only who stands for what and who likes who political games.

Of course this could be reproduced in other similar communities as well.

Re: Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn

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Post by ghaff »

covidien wrote: post #205
ThePhysicist wrote: post #28

From a professional standpoint LinkedIn gave me a lot of value for free so I'm mostly feeling positive about it, but I agree that like any social network it has downsides and can lead to psychological stress. Personally I live by the mantra that "scrolling is dangerous", i.e. I try to never interact with social media or news platforms that incite me to scroll down a feed of algorithmically curated news or updates, as…

> From a professional standpoint LinkedIn gave me a lot of value for free i'm curious what others see as value from the platform. in my narrow view: - i have a list of connections id most likely be able to contact off platform - a feed full of virtue signaling and mostly useless content - messages from random recruiters. usually the full extent of the interaction is: phonecall, redo resume and send over, ghost (40+ i…

I think people's job patterns varying is part of it. For me, I've mostly stayed at my relatively few jobs for a long time (10 years or more) and every job after the one immediately after grad school have been through people I knew. Others are hopping around a lot more and are more often through recruiters looking for some particular keyword skill.

LinkedIn is pretty useless for the former--except as a Rolodex--but anecdotally can be very useful for the latter.

Re: Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn

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Post by fendy3002 »

techslave wrote: post #210
hliyan wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Counter-example to the original author: I refused to have a LinkedIn account for the first 12 years of my career (LinkedIn launched the same year I started my career, I believe). But after I opened one, it really helped my career. I found my last two jobs through it. My timeline looks OK because I unfollow a lot of people. I've done the same with Facebook. I rarely come away from either site with my blood pressure an…

> But after I opened one, it really helped my career. I found my last two jobs through it. Selection bias. You may very well have found the same exact, or even better, jobs outside of LI.

Genuine question: how? For me, LinkedIn is the only platform where recruiter can discover my profile and contact me. I've got one job from it.

Other than that it only left me with jobsdb and jobsteet, both need for me to actively looking for a job.

Re: Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn

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Post by allthecybers »

moksly wrote: post #178
ThePhysicist wrote: post #28

From a professional standpoint LinkedIn gave me a lot of value for free so I'm mostly feeling positive about it, but I agree that like any social network it has downsides and can lead to psychological stress. Personally I live by the mantra that "scrolling is dangerous", i.e. I try to never interact with social media or news platforms that incite me to scroll down a feed of algorithmically curated news or updates, as…

LinkedIn is the only social media that has had a positive impact on my career. I’m being followed by possibly future employers, networking with peers and talking about shared issues, planning working lunches at conventions and getting job offers. I never scroll through the news feed.

I dislike the news feed but have gotten four of my last six jobs from being discovered on LinkedIn. I’d love to close my LinkedIn but I never know when I’ll be job searching again.

I kind of wish there was an HN like job site that was widely used in corporate America but didn’t have all the ‘content’. Just an online resume.

Re: Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn

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Post by dhruvmittal »

lordnacho wrote: post #15

I find that a lot of serendipitous connections are made on LinkedIn. People will see my profile and strike up a conversation. Seems to work OK for what it is. What it isn't great for is content. There's never anything remotely useful there, the whole feed is a weird corporate version of the self help section in a bookshop. A lot of stuff is written purely to get attention. But I also don't see the tradeoff in as poor…

^This. I've said it for years, but LinkedIn is my favorite social network right now. It gives me the dream of keeping up with all the people I've known (X moved to Y, started a new job, etc) but don't care to actually speak to, but doesn't force me to care about their politics or opinions about game of thrones. On top of that, the "office culture" feel keeps things a little more professional and/or shallow-- if you wouldn't say something at work, you probably wouldn't say it on LinkedIn, which gives just a bit of a sterile feel (vs Twitter or Facebook, which are everyone's soapboxes).

Re: Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn

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Post by drchickensalad »

coldpie wrote: post #191
madengr wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you saying the filter was useless, or you couldn’t find a single candidate out of hundreds?

Sorry. What I meant by "resume filter" was us manually scanning through the candidates. We put some criteria for C programmers into LinkedIn and got a bunch of web and .NET devs who had also mentioned C someplace. Perhaps skilled C devs just aren't looking for jobs on LinkedIn (totally possible! I wouldn't if I were looking), but I was kind of surprised that we got literally zero viable candidates. I expected at leas…

I highly recommend more niche sources, like triplebyte, angel list/angel co, stack overflow, indeed, glassdoor, etc.

Re: Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn

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Post by jonnypotty »

sk0v wrote: post #63

I really consider getting rid of my car. I bought it a year ago, but it's only ever sat in the driveway, I never use it. The funny meta-thing about his post, is that the content he feels adds 0 value, is in fact his own post. He is literally making a post about a tool he doesn't use. It's the equivalent of a person making a blog post about a tv series they don't watch but have seen the trailer for; no actual value to…

And I suppose you think this comment it clever do you? Adds 0 value to what? What's he trying to 'add value' to? This site? Your life? The post has a lot of personal truth and insight in it, maybe you should read it again. This person used to use it did they not? They have something to say. Whether you agree or not is up to you - but zero value? What are you on dude?
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