Can anyone use the phrase "undersigned and federated bodies of the internet" and expect to be taken seriously?
Stop Using LinkedIn
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Re: Stop Using LinkedIn
#52Linkedin has been known to shut down competing services prior to this. At hired.com, our API access was revoked (a long while ago), and many of our users were no longer able to login.
you guys rejected me as a customer even though my team is building data science stuff on open source technologies, because my employer does translation which is "a competing staffing service".
Re: Stop Using LinkedIn
#53Dear programmers, if you are using linkedin you are doing it wrong. Use github, careers.stackoverflow, a plain html resume page, the ladders, and basically anything else that is not linkedin to showcase your skillset.
LinkedIn is useful for more than just "showcasing your skillset" though.
Re: Stop Using LinkedIn
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
How would you validate the resumes? The power of LinkedIn is in the trust it establishes. Granted I still have a lot of validation to do before hiring/doing business with someone, but Linkedin is a great first filter. I know for software engineers, Github could be a better filter, but it's just a very small segment in the world of business.
"The power of LinkedIn is in the trust it establishes." I feel the complete opposite way. I've had people claim I know PHP on my profile when I've never used PHP in my life. That's endorse stuff is major baloney. How can you trust that when anybody can just click Endorse for whatever they want?
Very true. I have endorsements in C++ from my auto insurance guy, which doesn't make any sense either.
Re: Stop Using LinkedIn
#55linkedin: "someone just viewed your profile." me: "who?" linkedin: "can't tell you."
linkedin workflow: * get connection request * reset password * log in * accept connection * log out * do not think about linkedin again until the next connection request.
Wow, this is... yeah, this is pretty much how I use LinkedIn too.
I'm going to go see what's involved in deleting my LinkedIn profile, I think. Github should be my resume anyway.
Re: Stop Using LinkedIn
#56LinkedIn, like Twitter, is limiting API usage to specific use cases that dovetail with LinkedIn's own apps, instead of competing with them. The restrictions were imposed yesterday. The authors of this manifesto think that's a bad thing, but they don't give me, the reader, any more information. Why is it a bad thing? What cool stuff am I missing by using LinkedIn and its restrictive API? Why should I put effort into a…
I've dealt with vendors in other situations who felt they had a right to free and open access to the Mother Ship, even when they were competing with it. You can't get around that mindset. The only reason to be angry is when the Mothership makes explicit promises that it backs away from. And given how many platforms bring things in to control the user experience (even AirBnB is taking more ownership of the total experience) this shouldn't come as a surprise to the small players.
Re: Stop Using LinkedIn
#57LinkedIn, like Twitter, is limiting API usage to specific use cases that dovetail with LinkedIn's own apps, instead of competing with them. The restrictions were imposed yesterday. The authors of this manifesto think that's a bad thing, but they don't give me, the reader, any more information. Why is it a bad thing? What cool stuff am I missing by using LinkedIn and its restrictive API? Why should I put effort into a…
I actually couldn't tell if it was intended to be a joke, a trolling, or perhaps the rantings of a lunatic. Putting in stuff like "federated bodies of the internet" and the "empire of LinkedIn" makes it seem like it's supposed to be a gag.
If this site is supposed to be serious, they should perhaps remove the superfluous text and add some actual information about what LinkedIn is doing (aside from just linking to the image of the terms of service notification).
--EDIT-- I see that this is a re-wording of FDR's infamy speech which explains the text. I still can't tell if it's a joke or not though.
Re: Stop Using LinkedIn
#58Dear programmers, if you are using linkedin you are doing it wrong. Use github, careers.stackoverflow, a plain html resume page, the ladders, and basically anything else that is not linkedin to showcase your skillset.
LinkedIn is useful for more than just "showcasing your skillset" though.
How is that? The only thing I've ever gotten from them is a shitty user experience, overabundance of dark UI patterns, and recruiter spam.
Re: Stop Using LinkedIn
#59Guessing that someone isn't happy that their lead generation app just lost its data input?
This website is nothing more than a knee-jerk reaction that tries to rally readers by crafting a context that makes it sound as if LinkedIn's changes are not in the interest of the user.
Yes, I would like open access to the API, but I'd gladly trade that if it helps reduce the volume of spam sales/recruitment inquiries I receive.
The partnership integration route may have extra hoops to jump through, but it doesn't concern someone like myself who's anticipating LinkedIn integration with our product; our intent is not what LinkedIn is trying to curb.
Re: Stop Using LinkedIn
#60This reads like an Anonymous diatribe. Clear language will yield better results.
RIght. I went away with no frickin idea what they were talking about. So, no I don't care either. LinkedIn is THE way to connect professionally. Some API rant is not going to change that.
Yeah. The site had no information on it.
But I wonder, is LinkedIn really "the" way to connect professionally? My personal bit of anecdotal experience is that it isn't for me. I was on LinkedIn for maybe 15 years? I accepted everyone on LinkedIn (I was not discriminating at all). And in that 15 years, I never found one job through it. Right now in Seattle (where I've been for 10 years), I go through my "people I drink beer with" network.
What I'd love to see is a network that would introduce me to people in other cities. I want to move to NYC, but I know no one there. So I don't know the good vs. bad neighborhoods, companies to stay away from (you know there is a list), etc.