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I've moved over to Polywork. Which has a bit more of a tongue in cheek feel, but definitely feels better thank Linked in does, with a better community. Invite link for the curious https://www.polywork.com/invite/olliejudge-hypno
"Wow, looks like Ollie's looking out for you... but they're out of invites. Sign up for the waitlist today "
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Use it here: https://www.polywork.com/users/sign_up_vip
Remove your 6000 connections except the people you actually know. Linkedin is what you make it, and you have made yours like Facebook.
Remove your 6000 connections except the people you actually know. Linkedin is what you make it, and you have made yours like Facebook.
Not really. LinkedIn shows random posts with 2k+ engagement unrelated to your connections and they are the cringiest post that end with "agree?"
Remove your 6000 connections except the people you actually know. Linkedin is what you make it, and you have made yours like Facebook.
I actually accept invites randomly at times if the profile looks interesting. But I also cull the list once every 2-3 months. If an unknown contact didn't add any value after initial connection, I remove them from my connection.
I invested about a decade in my LinkedIn profile, putting stacks of reasonably high quality posts and articles on there. I got up to around 20k fairly organic connections/followers. The content was good too. All in all it was a big part of my career and business. About 2 years ago I really started to feel that LinkedIn jumped the shark. The (left leaning) virtue signalling, constant boasting, aggressive sales just de…
I'm going to guess that the geographic differences of our connections are likely the main difference there.
- it’s got a clear purpose (business networking)
- it’s the new defacto resume
- it’s the new business card
- people frequently share only professional interests and don’t share political news
The thing is, I’m not sure, unless you’re actively networking, why you would even log in. Just keep it dormant until you need a job or to grow your network.
Remove your 6000 connections except the people you actually know. Linkedin is what you make it, and you have made yours like Facebook.
LinkedIn is one of my favorite social networks - it’s got a clear purpose (business networking) - it’s the new defacto resume - it’s the new business card - people frequently share only professional interests and don’t share political news The thing is, I’m not sure, unless you’re actively networking, why you would even log in. Just keep it dormant until you need a job or to grow your network.
It may depend on your profile, but I get a lot of contact spam (just to have more followers), headhunters messages, motivational or other kinds of non exactly professional interest posts because contacts of contacts or just "promoted" content, and that is after being very selective on who you are connected to and muting/disconnecting the noisiest contacts.
I can't put a finger on who's responsible, the users community as a whole or how it is built/promoted, but the end result is having too much noise and not enough signal.
It really depends what you use LinkedIn for. Discovery: You say you had lots of incoming messages from recruiters but few of any use, so it sounds like you may have interest in discovery (being found by recruiters for opportunities). Unfortunately, LinkedIn is pretty much the standard and there aren't many other places recruiter can go to find candidates en masse. Angel.co is perhaps the closest thing I've seen there…
I’ll add to that: Networking / making connections. IMHO, that kind of stuff probably doesn’t happen so much on LinkedIn. Better venues are probably local meetups (see meetup.com) or good old conferences.