I never really got into Facebook, but as far as I can tell LinkedIn is mandatory Facebook for work. TFA hit the nail on the head with "I don't want people to think I'm a weirdo" being the reason to use LinkedIn. The only value in having the account is in not having to explain to colleagues why I don't have one.
Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn
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Re: Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn
#352Am I the only one not seeing the argument in the blog post? All I read was "LinkedIn is bad and being on it does more harm than good" without anything to support the premise.
I've been on LinkedIn for years and it did nothing but good for me. I found nothing but quality jobs on it, I stopped visiting job websites as a result, I'm getting approached by companies as a result instead of me applying. I don't understand what the author was doing to find LinkedIn "bad" and "more harm than good". I think this is nonsense.
Re: Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn
#353I never liked linkedin. There's is a strange 'race' of getting 500+ connections, even if you're not connected at all to them
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#354My current employer's internal recruiter found me randomly on linkedin. I wouldn't have my job without being on there :)
Re: Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn
#355It works great for me with regard to job hunting get pinged almost everyday by recruiters... my connections mostly are recruiters other than people I know/work with. Other than that I don't participate in social stuff as it has my name on it.
Granted I have some social accounts(reddit) that are doxxable but mostly they're not... I don't attack people I'm just weird/can't really be me with my name. YouTube is almost borderline but thankfully as of yet I'm not aware of an easy/public way to scan YouTube comments.
Re: Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn
#356Earlier quoted context omitted.
Now that I think about it, most of my complaints about LinkedIn is about the "news feed". Its full of mostly useless content by wannabe thought leaders drowning out a few posts which may have been insightful/relevant. Job search and add/message connections are the only features I have found useful.
I use uBlock Origin to completely block out the news feed and messaging, and it makes my LinkedIn experience orders of magnitude better. When I visit linkedin.com, now, I'm greeted with a navigation header bar and a blank page where the news feed used to be. It's perfect. I personally found messaging to not be very useful or relevant, and I just couldn't keep up with the backlog of messages. If they really want to co…
> www.linkedin.com###voyager-feed
That's the one that I used, thanks! I find messaging valuable :)
Re: Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn
#357Earlier quoted context omitted.
>>Not to mention any names but you know who I'm talking about. Not trolling but I'm willing to bet that the majority here in HN, including me, do not know who you are talking about.
To me it seems like (in no particular order): Bill Gates, Satya Nadella, Richard Branson, Guy Kawasaki.
Did you choose to follow those people at some point? I get regular "recommendations" on who to follow on LinkedIn, including Gates, Nadella, and Branson, but I never take them. And I don't have any content in my feed from any of those folks.
All the content in my feed is from my connections or interactions by my connections. Of course there is plenty of vapid "thought-leader" content from them too.
Actually I've gotten some amusement from watching a few former colleagues overtly try the "LinkedIn thought leader" thing. Kind of funny to observe the (sometimes very large) gap between what they post and what I know they used to do in their day jobs.
Re: Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn
#358I left LinkedIn over 2 years ago now, never looked back since. A lot of what I wrote is similar in theme - https://tomaytotomato.com/linkedout/
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#359I can freely attribute my previous and current job, as well as my current partnership (emerged from the current job) to LinkedIn. I've been reached out by recruiters both times and apparently it did work out.
From another POV I understand the criticism, it's been a while I haven't visited LinkedIn, nor have I updated the profile, and it's mostly caused by the "noise" I feel on social networks. But, it still can be beneficial for some professionals at a certain phase of their career.
Re: Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn
#360I only really get on LinkedIn when I need a job which I hope I don't see any need for in a long, long time.
That said, LinkedIn got me my first job out of college and continues to provide opportunities, so I drop in once in a while to like colleagues' accomplishments when prompted. I see value in it.