[HN Gopher] Baby pics, life lessons, and obits: What happened to...
___________________________________________________________________
Baby pics, life lessons, and obits: What happened to LinkedIn?
Author : pseudolus
Score : 56 points
Date : 2022-06-25 11:36 UTC (11 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (thewalrus.ca)
(TXT) w3m dump (thewalrus.ca)
| omershapira wrote:
| Clay Shirky once casually said in a class, "Can criminals use
| your app? How? If criminals can't use your app, no one can."
|
| I think about this every time I see a thinkpiece about how a
| public forum's gone south after incentivizing attention seeking.
| [deleted]
| sys_64738 wrote:
| Linkedin's only utility to me is to keep in contact with past
| work colleagues and for recruitment purposes. Apart from that
| it's filled with the usual garbage all these social webpages
| have.
| higeorge13 wrote:
| LinkedIn feed has become unreadable due to what has been
| mentioned in the article. I keep muting such content, aiming to
| train the algorithm, but they keep appearing. And that leads to
| unfollowing people posting or liking that kind of content.
| mkmk wrote:
| How do you mute content on LinkedIn? I was recently trying to
| block a few words to improve the quality of my feed, and found
| that I could only "unfollow" individuals. A mute word function,
| a la twitter, would be great but I don't think it exists.
| gnicholas wrote:
| There's no effective way. On mobile web they limit you even
| more in terms of the choices of why you want to hide a post.
| Regardless, the algorithm seems entirely intransigent. It
| still shows me posts in which someone I barely know 'likes'
| that someone I will never meet graduated from college. I am
| 40, so it's not even a good guess that I would know a recent
| graduate (from a university I've never visited).
|
| I think they don't give ways to modify the feed because it
| would be nearly empty for most people once they opted out of
| the various post types they aren't interested in. Then people
| would realize there was no value and leave.
| mathattack wrote:
| They haven't made it any better in a decade. Except to make it
| easier for Enterprise salespeople to spam me. Why doesn't a
| competitor emerge?
| Cherian_Abraham wrote:
| Flagged this easy to spot scan profile a month ago, and it is
| still up and thriving (100 connections added since)
|
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-h-0b2519160
|
| Between dark patterns, and an almost disregard to trust and
| security - I feel any product focus at LinkedIn has long ago been
| abandoned.
| petesergeant wrote:
| One thing that baffles me is the amount of connection spam.
| Mostly because they sell a competing product (InMail), but seem
| to really not care at all about people freeloading from them
| using spam in connection invites instead.
| Animats wrote:
| There's pressure to use LinkedIn, even if you're not looking for
| work.
|
| I recently joined a standards group. They wanted my LinkedIn URL,
| but not my Github URL.
| mgh2 wrote:
| Extensive analysis: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30215033
| remoquete wrote:
| I only post work-related stuff on LinkedIn, and usually find
| similar content in my feed. Having said that, I mute or unfollow
| creators of the kind highlighted in the post. In some cases, I
| remove the connection with whoever liked that content, and do it
| without regrets. High quality contacts in my network almost never
| shitpost.
| [deleted]
| amelius wrote:
| Fantastic. As a non-user of LinkedIn, any indication of its
| demise reduces my FOMO.
| dopidopHN wrote:
| I'm a early user and I don't think I ever posted there. But I
| have to say : my last 3 jobs are 100% passive LinkedIn leads.
|
| It's convenient and I would miss that I think ? But I tends to
| be really ... average positions. It's a bonanza of shitty
| contracting companies. It's takes filtering to get decent jobs.
| Traubenfuchs wrote:
| You are not missing anything but recruiter spam.
| mmmmklllljgd wrote:
| I get a torrent of recruiter spam in my InMail but I also got
| my current job through InMail; the person that reached out to
| me was a team technical lead at a company you've heard of
| that I very much wanted to work for, and I took the bait, and
| nearly doubled my pay in the process
|
| And I've never posted or paid. I just have a profile, and
| it's not even a very good one
|
| So apparently there is some value
| boredemployee wrote:
| With positions that usually match at most 30% of our skills.
| tedmcory77 wrote:
| Facebook and Instagram are dying, so people are putting those
| things there.
| ThalesX wrote:
| I find LinkedIN influencers funny for a long time, so I decided
| to become one. In a sort of ironic way, I sometimes do posts on
| LinkedIN where I just fluff a dumb story / idea and go with it
| because I love all the reactions from people that probably don't
| read it because it's obvious how dumb it is.
|
| Last one was about moving all my company's servers to a
| renewable-using co-located server facility that prides itself in
| their personal connection to the underlying hardware and how
| their approach is similar to how Belgian monks brew beer. Which
| of course is true because I deployed something on my friend's NAS
| and he loves brewing beer and taking care of his server. The move
| has been commented as "Inspiring" by some HR.
|
| Oh I also helped a friend deploy a super simple site on Vercel
| NextJS so of course it had 99 Google Page Speed Rating so I wrote
| this big ass post on how my company prides itself in delivering
| high quality results to our customers. I posted graphs of our
| almost 0 visitors, the google Page Speed and link to the super
| shitty website. Almost no one clicked it though a lot of people
| 'clapped'.
|
| I honestly can't wait to go to an interview where someone asks me
| about my posts.
| melony wrote:
| I have heard good things about this LinkedIn competitor:
|
| https://www.shlinkedin.com
| [deleted]
| gadders wrote:
| One of the many reasons to look forward to retirement is to be
| able say what I really think on LinkedIn.
| silisili wrote:
| LinkedIn has always been a mess. It's a weird mix of absolute
| narcissists who all spend time trying to make inspirational posts
| and teaching forced life lessons, and people desperate for
| attention seeking a bigger network than FB probably is for. After
| all, adding some rando is probably taboo on FB, but more
| acceptable on LinkedIn.
|
| Talking about the posters, of course. Most people I know with
| LinkedIn just use it as an online resume for recruiters, and that
| actually works OK. Unsure why they added a social element at all,
| to be honest.
| gumby wrote:
| > Most people I know with LinkedIn just use it as an online
| resume for recruiters, and that actually works OK.
|
| Yeah, it seems there are two linkindins: one where you post
| your resume, look up people you're about to meet with, message
| friends whose email address you no longer have in the hope
| they'll write back, get messages from recruiters, and that's
| about it.
|
| There's also this weird thing with posts and follows and such
| but It's basically invisible. Not that LinkedIn doesn't try to
| spam you with it, but back when there were cigarette and liquor
| billboards I didn't really see them either. Brain just filtered
| it out as visual spam.
|
| So when I read articles like this I am fascinated. They are
| like descriptions of a web site I've never visited. I wonder
| who actually gets value from it.
| trentnix wrote:
| It's wall-to-wall virtue signaling. And no amount of "I don't
| want to see this" seems to move the needle.
| jfim wrote:
| > Unsure why they added a social element at all, to be honest.
|
| Ads.
| jacob_rezi wrote:
| retention of course
| allenu wrote:
| Social media is really great for the companies who own the
| platforms. They just end up off-loading the work of
| content-generation to the users, who also do the work of
| attracting and retaining other users, all so that the
| platform-owner can advertise to them or track their
| behavior.
| FartyMcFarter wrote:
| > After all, adding some rando is probably taboo on FB, but
| more acceptable on LinkedIn.
|
| To me this makes LinkedIn pointless. The whole point, at least
| in the beginning, was to create a network of people you've
| worked with.
|
| If you start adding random people it becomes like yet another
| social network without any added benefit.
| silisili wrote:
| Well, maybe not completely random.
|
| Recruiters are generally random and have no qualms about
| adding people.
|
| People also will add people at the company, even if they
| don't work together, or even colleague of colleague type
| connections are pretty standard. Doing so on FB I think would
| be weird, especially across genders.
| heretogetout wrote:
| I've always treated LinkedIn as Facebook for people that want
| to appear serious. Does it provide _any_ value?
| RosanaAnaDana wrote:
| It allows you to maintain a network of people you have
| professional ties with.
| foobiekr wrote:
| The purpose of LinkedIn is small propaganda, same as Facebook
| or Twitter. Any other use is mostly drowned out by the posters.
| MrDresden wrote:
| Only use Linkedin for resume discoverability. Couldn't care for
| all the circle jerking that goes on in there.
| whateveracct wrote:
| I've got an ever-growing "LinkedCringe" screenshot album on my
| phone. Always good for a mean laugh.
| gnicholas wrote:
| I hate when people post stories (often with pictures) about some
| sad or amazing or whatever story, and they make it seem like it's
| about them. These are always written in the first person, but if
| you read all the way to the bottom it will say "credit:
| somePerson", or something like that. Sometimes it's phrased to
| make it seem like it's a photo credit, which is the worst.
|
| These stories get all sorts of traction and comments because
| people misunderstand that they're not the OP's story (and
| honestly, many of them are probably complete fabrications.
|
| I wish there were a way to report such comments to LinkedIn,
| either as downright deceptive or specifically as a type of
| 'stolen valor'. Is it reportable as misinformation? Maybe so. But
| LinkedIn probably loves this stuff because it increases
| engagement and makes people feel good when they use LinkedIn.
| Simon_O_Rourke wrote:
| I follow one of my 1990s Amiga coding heroes on LinkedIn, and he
| said the same thing only a few days ago and it really hit me.
| Let's keep it professional people!
|
| No more of this nonsense about tangentially work related fluff to
| get likes, it probably won't land you a job!
| nathanaldensr wrote:
| Was LinkedIn ever something worth talking about?
|
| Agree? Thoughts? Comment for reach!
| denvaar wrote:
| Is there an alternative out there that has less of a social media
| element?
| jacob_rezi wrote:
| We're building something that will be similar
___________________________________________________________________
(page generated 2022-06-25 23:01 UTC)