I, like many people, find LinkedIn particularly annoying. I like the premise of it, don’t get me wrong, a resume you don’t need to update all that often seems cool. Unfortunately though, its turned into the worst possible version of itself. It’s a place where people post
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I, like many people, find LinkedIn particularly annoying. I like the premise of it, don’t get me wrong, a resume you don’t need to update all that often seems cool. Unfortunately though, its turned into the worst possible version of itself. It’s a place where people post half baked nonsense all for the sake of building a personal brand that nobody really cares about.

I log in and see constant posting that I can only describe as toxic mediocrity. A seemingly endless stream of posts that are over fluffed, over produced and ultimately say nothing.

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I like the LinkedIn of 2005; by 2010, it had already added on “features” that turned the user into the product and released a mobile app that stole your address book without permission and spied on yoyr browser activity.

    By the time Microsoft acquired it, it was already becoming a social media hub designed to push you into expanding your network and preferentially connecting people to the highest bidder.

    I still use it the way it was originally designed; it has my employment history, and I am “linked” to people I have actually worked with in one capacity or another.