Any aspiring startup founders should ignore this terrible advice.
Delete LinkedIn – you'll have zero fucking regrets (2021)
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Re: Delete LinkedIn – you'll have zero fucking regrets (2021)
#32Or just delete the app and log in once a year or whenever you’re job seeking?
I will say I agree that the platform is mostly spam and has definitely gotten worse sense 2021 when the article was written. But you can just not log in everyday and still have a profile. Also no reason to put your birthday on a social network IMO and you can reject requests for connections if you don’t know someone.
Re: Delete LinkedIn – you'll have zero fucking regrets (2021)
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Re: Delete LinkedIn – you'll have zero fucking regrets (2021)
#34I don't see how people use social media apps with notifications turned on.
I just disable all notifications and it doesn't bother me to have LinkedIn because I only open it when I feel like it. Same with Facebook, etc.
Incredibly, the default is always for notifications to be enabled, and I don't know how people live like that.
Re: Delete LinkedIn – you'll have zero fucking regrets (2021)
#35When did we start referring to social media platforms like this? “Delete LinkedIn” should be “delete your LinkedIn account.” There’s also things like, “do you have Instagram?” I have an account, but I don’t have the whole company. I’m probably just too old.
Re: Delete LinkedIn – you'll have zero fucking regrets (2021)
#36When did we start referring to social media platforms like this? “Delete LinkedIn” should be “delete your LinkedIn account.” There’s also things like, “do you have Instagram?” I have an account, but I don’t have the whole company. I’m probably just too old.
Most of these are used through an app. I read it as “delete the app from your phone”.
Re: Delete LinkedIn – you'll have zero fucking regrets (2021)
#37My only regret is I get more spam about 'found you on linkedin' than before I deleted my account.
+1 Funny
Re: Delete LinkedIn – you'll have zero fucking regrets (2021)
#38> I spent the day receiving over 500 (!) birthday greetings from LinkedIn contacts, whose names and faces I didn’t even recognize, who had clicked on a notification prompt From the above, it appears that the harm is self-inflicted. Why would one have 500+ contacts who she does not recognize? Linkedin is a tool and every tool can be misused. My contact list is under 200 and those are the people I enjoyed working with…
I always accept friend requests in case they want to send me a message, which they sometimes do. Is that bad? Maybe I should go back and delete all those people.
Re: Delete LinkedIn – you'll have zero fucking regrets (2021)
#39Don’t do it. I get tons of work opportunity outreach on LI. Maybe you don’t, but it doesn’t hurt to put your shingle out.
100% this.
People need to read "The Strength Of Weak Ties" before advocating extremely damaging courses of action such as deleting LinkedIn.
Humans are social animals and we cannot survive without a social network. Yet many in the West seem to ignore this obvious fact. It is baffling.
After so many years, I can't help but wonder if it's deliberate malice.
Re: Delete LinkedIn – you'll have zero fucking regrets (2021)
#40I'm only on there to once every few years look up old work friends / where they are ... or when I'm job hunting.
Otherwise app deleted, I'm not on there.
Pretty easy to do.
I find it soul crushing even when I do look, so many generic yay company posts full of BS, my feed is hell and I don't want to bother fixing it.