You can delete a LI profile, create a new one, and ppl who are still relevant will find you again (and vice versa). True. Your real colleague list is well under 100 ppl, stop adding mere acquaintances.
My real colleague list is well over 100ppl.
LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming
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Re: LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming
#42Not using linked in is the solution. It's a cess pool and terrible at offering what it advertises. I have a profile where my bio starts with the fact you wont reach me on linked in and to email me instead. This works for me, but mileage my vary.
I’m sure that recruiters are going to scour the Internet looking for you. I created my LinkIn account in 2012. By then I had been a developer for 15 years in Atlanta and knew all of the local recruiters and had met some in person. For the next 8 years, LinkedIn really didn’t serve a purpose. When I looked for a job in 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018, I just reached out to my network and interviews and offers fell into my l…
Like I said, mileage may vary. I can see how for some roles it would be useful, clearly it must be. It cant all be braindead takes, lies, and self-aggrandizing. However, in some countries linkedin has strong competition and poor presence. My stance is that if you value your time you wont use linkedin. It is an enormous time waste, which unlike conventional social media doesnt even entertain.
Saying linked in is good for jobs is like saying tinder is good for dating, or facebook is good for socialising. It sure can be, but the quality and substance of what youre after does need to factor in, and so does the time you spent there over higher value time sinks. For me, tinder does not serve my needs, and neither does linked in. Both offer poor signal to noise and terrible time economy.
Re: LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming
#43Not using linked in is the solution. It's a cess pool and terrible at offering what it advertises. I have a profile where my bio starts with the fact you wont reach me on linked in and to email me instead. This works for me, but mileage my vary.
I’m sure that recruiters are going to scour the Internet looking for you. I created my LinkIn account in 2012. By then I had been a developer for 15 years in Atlanta and knew all of the local recruiters and had met some in person. For the next 8 years, LinkedIn really didn’t serve a purpose. When I looked for a job in 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018, I just reached out to my network and interviews and offers fell into my l…
> I’m sure that recruiters are going to scour the Internet looking for you.
They don't have to do that. Apparently there are services which link any known email address, mobile phone etc. to your LinkedIn account through a browser addon even when you didn't hand these over to LinkedIn.
I know because my mom was called several times on her mobile phone (which has a number not in any phone book) by a very aggressive and disrespectful recruiter looking for me while I even was not looking for a job. (her first initial and mine are the same).
Only when I threatened him to report him and his company to LinkedIn and the authorities, and blocking him on LinkedIn the calls stopped.
Re: LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t think this is about ignoring consent. It’s about who controls relationships. These are mutual, first-degree connections, and the emails are intentionally visible to me. LinkedIn isn’t protecting people from misuse here; it’s preventing portability. If the concern were outreach consent, that could be handled with clearer user controls. Blocking access entirely keeps relationships dependent on the platform, whi…
Again, there's a very clear user control. On the email visibility settings page, there's a toggle named "Allow connection to export emails". The 5% of contacts who had an email in your data dump are the 5% of people who've chosen to let you export their email by enabling this toggle.
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Re: LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming
#45you can upload a csv of linkedin connections to a Clay table then use a data provider like FullEnrich to get emails and other profile info. Could also use a tool like n8n instead of Clay or build your own system to read the csv and make api calls to enrichment service
What's Clay? Can't find the service you're referencing with a few quick searches
Re: LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming
#46Are you going to reach out to 200 people? I imagine only 1-2 of them can actually significantly advance your career in any meaningful way. Wouldn't your time be better spent cultivating relationships with those 1-2 peole rather than collecting data on 200 people who you're realistically not going to see any return from?
You would hope so, but it doesn't seem so in today's job market. Have you seen how many applicants are on open SWE job postings these days?
Anecdotely, I’m in the interview pool at my mid size company. Our offer to application ratio is 0.4% with over 7000 applications. We are a fully remote company.
I have personally referred 6 people who I know are qualified. Only two got interviews and no offers.
Hell my offer to referral ratio was 50% at AWS. The job market really sucks right now
Re: LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be clear: there is no legal requirement for LinkedIn to restore service. They reserve the right to deny service to anyone for any or no reason. But they might restore service even though the courts won’t “make” them.
Aren't you fairly likely to get a default judgement because they're unlikely to show up to court?
They’re actually pretty diligent about finding relatively low-cost local lawyers to show up and provide some boilerplate.
Re: LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've never needed LinkedIn in a 20 year career. I think you're way over estimating the so called "value" you get from this platform.
Because of an anecdote/data point of one? Odd take. Networking is wildly better, but you know what makes it easier? Having a Rolodex of people I’ve worked with that shows where they’re currently at.
If you aren't sure where people are you haven't been networking with them.