[HN Gopher] LinkedIn is the worst social media I've ever seen
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LinkedIn is the worst social media I've ever seen
Besides being full of AI-generated, useless content, the platform
is also riddled with dark patterns. I'm a newcomer, I'd never used
LinkedIn before until I joined three months ago. Since then, I've
been banned twice and shadow-banned several times. 1) Right after
I created my account, I got shadow-banned. My friends couldn't find
me, and my profile wasn't accessible via direct link. This issue
wasn't resolved until I contacted support; they confirmed that
restrictions had been placed on my account and then removed them.
2) I shouldn't even have to mention this, but as a professional in
my field, after that incident I always ended up on the very last
pages of search results for keywords related to my field. People
without those keywords in their resumes, or whose work isn't at all
related to the field, kept being ranked ahead of me. I can't say I
was deliberately pessimized, but that's exactly how it appears. 3)
Some time later, I decided to get Premium and paid with my own card
(issued in another country, with the same name as on my profile and
my passport). That's when I received the first restriction: I was
locked out of my account and couldn't sign in until I contacted
support. They made me take a photo of myself and of my passport,
and after that they lifted the restrictions and apologized. 4)
Everything seemed to be going along normally, yet I remained stuck
on the last pages of search, being outranked by completely
irrelevant profiles, until I decided to write a post about my own
article on Medium. Immediately after publishing the post with a
link to Medium, I received a second restriction. I was locked out
of my account, couldn't access my messages or interview
invitations, and even missed a call because of this. They once
again required me to submit a photo of myself along with a copy of
my passport. Although they eventually restored my account, this
time the process took 4-5 days, which caused me to miss an
interview. 5) Now my profile is accessible via direct link, but
I've disappeared from search. No one can find me, and hardly anyone
visits my page. My post was hidden while support was "sorting out"
my account, and I lost all the potential post views it would have
gained because it wasn't featured in the recommendations. All of
this happened within the first three months of using LinkedIn. I've
never seen a more appalling social media, one so full of dark
patterns and outright abuse towards its users, forcing them through
humiliating identity verification processes and hiding them from
search. Needless to say, I have never violated any of the
platform's rules. I don't spam, I don't bother people, and I don't
advertise anything. Meanwhile, my friend, whose account is over
five years old--can do whatever he wants. He uses VPNs, changes his
profile location several times a week, and switches his VPN
location from Dubai to Europe multiple times a day without ever
facing any restrictions. And yes, I completely forgot to add: when
your account gets restricted, it doesn't matter whether you're a
premium user or not -- the treatment is equally poor and the
response is equally slow. I've never seen a worse social media,
and I'd be thrilled if a worthy competitor to LinkedIn ever
emerged, I'd be one of the first to join. BONUS: This content was
originally posted on reddit, quickly became popular in the LinkedIn
subreddit and was then deleted by moderator who works for M$ (which
owns LinkedIn). Frankly, it feels like the whole LinkedIn subreddit
is highly censored by him.
Author : bitreducer
Score : 165 points
Date : 2025-02-14 19:58 UTC (3 hours ago)
| mtmail wrote:
| Oh the irony: The submission was default hidden but I hang out on
| the https://news.ycombinator.com/newest page and vouched for it.
| So another example of automated blocking rules for a new user
| account.
| achierius wrote:
| It's funny since if it were any other platform, it would have
| collapsed by now. But because we all use it to find work, well,
| what other choice do we have? Sure, most of us don't post, but
| we're still clicking on the website, and we're still seeing the
| feed -- apparently that's enough for advertisers, for now.
| pbasista wrote:
| > we all use it to find work
|
| For what it is worth, I do not. I have only had an account
| there for a brief period of time when I was first looking for a
| job after university. Then, when Microsoft bought it, I deleted
| my account.
|
| When I was looking for a job afterwards, I had to go on an
| active look-out. I reached out to 10s of companies manually. I
| got ignored or immediately rejected most of the time. My
| success rate from me reaching out to an actual offer was about
| 3 %. But I guess for an average person that is to be expected.
|
| Looking for any job is easy. Looking for a good job takes time.
| gerdesj wrote:
| "My success rate from me reaching out to an actual offer was
| about 3 %"
|
| Back in the olden days that hit rate would have seemed quite
| normal. I can remember mailing (mail not email) 20-100
| letters with CVs for job applications. Each covering letter
| was hand signed and some were personalised for the target.
| Each envelope would have had something like a 30p stamp on it
| and running my printer was rather more expensive and slower
| than now.
|
| That was the early 1990s in the UK.
|
| [Edit: grammar]
| janice1999 wrote:
| Allowing you to sign up and then immediately locking or shadow
| banning your account is a dark pattern to force you to provide a
| mobile phone number or other identification (for extra
| advertising targeting of course).
| notahacker wrote:
| Nah. Shadowbanned users normally don't even _realise_ they 're
| shadow-banned; it's not a growth hacking strategy, and the
| point of ID is to validate details already provided for
| advertiser filtering. It doesn't even push the "verification"
| feature particularly hard. OP is unlucky enough to have IDs
| that span a couple of countries so probably triggers some half-
| baked algorithm aiming at weeding out fake profiles (LinkedIn
| _loves_ AI slop, but it 's in the business of selling expensive
| ways of messaging people, so it doesn't want too many fake
| profiles).
|
| Not that LinkedIn has great ethics around dark patterns:
| LinkedIn's original dark pattern growth hacks like the "find
| contacts" feature linked to your email that made it very easy
| to accidentally send connection requests to anyone you'd ever
| been included in an email chain with were particularly
| inappropriate and the "someone from x looked at your profile"
| stuff always strikes me as a bit creepy. But nobody shadowbans
| users as part of their growth funnel.
|
| And whilst LinkedIn is actually surprisingly useless for
| genuine business conversation, I'm not sure the mad people
| recounting Things That Didn't Happen which impart Important
| Business Lessons for likes are any worse than that sort of
| person on other social networks pushing much weirder and
| angrier stuff these days....
| LordN00b wrote:
| Recently I came to the conclusion that I needed to change jobs,
| but I held off because I didn't want to deal with the psychotic
| ramblings of LinkedIn posters. I'm sure in real life they are all
| perfectly normal indiviuals but something about LinkedIn insists
| that every poorly worded fable is gateway to wisdom, that
| methaphorical socratic dialog is to mechanism to describe human
| behaviour, and starting every second post with 'I'm sure this is
| a contraversional opinion but hear me out...'
|
| In the end I got fired, so I'm actually forced back into the
| LinkedIn maelstrom of mediocrity but against my will, and without
| even the grace of my own grim resignation to spur me in to
| action.
| bluGill wrote:
| Are you? Does anyone find a job with LinkedIn? They were sort
| of heading in that direction for a while, but don't seem to be
| anymore.
| shaneofalltrad wrote:
| What alternative do you recommend?
| SpaceNoodled wrote:
| It's the primary method for connecting with recruiters, and
| all the jobs I've had in the past fifteen years have been due
| to connections through LinkedIn.
|
| It's not "social media" in the same vein as other platforms.
| glitchc wrote:
| And here I am thinking about deactivating my Linkedin profile for
| good. That platform has never been useful, most people use it to
| spy on others.
| bluGill wrote:
| I'd have to login again for the first time in over a decade to
| do that. I probably should be I have better things to do than
| figure out my password.
| itishappy wrote:
| My linked-in is 10 years out of date, and I agree that killing
| it off is mighty attractive.
|
| Does anybody here have any experience searching for jobs
| without a linked-in? I'd be curious to know how much an effect
| that would have on future job searches.
| treebeard901 wrote:
| Over the past few years it has become more important to many
| recruiters. The idea that your network is your net worth is
| unfortunately a common belief.
| marssaxman wrote:
| I deleted my account fifteen or so years back, and it's
| worked out fine. I talk with friends to see if they've heard
| about anything interesting, and I look around for companies
| working on whatever it is I think I might like to do next,
| then try to get in touch. It's never taken more than a couple
| of months to find something.
| gerdesj wrote:
| I did and it took ages for the damn thing to die off. It kept
| on resurrecting itself! I dare not try to login to it just in
| case it arises again.
|
| Prepare for a long mission!
| t067633 wrote:
| You will not regret it. You will not miss it. I did the same to
| LinkedIn a couple of years ago, and just recently left
| FaceCrook and Twitter.
| sitzkrieg wrote:
| deleted linkedin in 2017 and havent thought twice about it since
| croes wrote:
| Sorry to break the bad news, it's still there
|
| https://www.linkedin.com/
| charlieyu1 wrote:
| Most people are only there because they are finding a job. When I
| have a job I just can't be bothered with LinkedIn
| sadcodemonkey wrote:
| Same here. LinkedIn is the labor market masquerading as social
| media. It isn't really "social" in any meaningful sense of that
| word.
| JohnMakin wrote:
| Ran into a similar ban recently and it has infuriated me to a
| level I have trouble describing - except I've been a paying user
| of this site for 10+ years. It seems to me what triggered it was
| enabling MFA + password change, which is a completely normal
| thing to do. It also seems like they're flagging people for VPN
| usage now. Persona, the application they use to "verify" you, has
| a really gnarly privacy policy and it does seem completely
| intentional to just sell the shit out of your data.
|
| My situation to avoid posting the same thing in multiple places:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43050578
|
| To me it's really weird they're taking such elaborate measures to
| ban legitimate paying users when the site is completely infested
| with AI/bot spam anyway. They seem out of their depth. Oh, and as
| an extra screw you, they're still billing me, because of course
| they are.
| ycombiredd wrote:
| Same happened to me, but by the time they gave me my account
| back (though now "unverified", even though I had to scan my DL
| for them to unsuspend my account - and even though I was
| premium and verified before the suspension btw - though the
| hatred is still there, the rage-motivation to document the
| insanity had devolved into apathetic sadness (with much help of
| the general state of the current incarnation of the job market)
| so I've said nothing until this meager reply.
|
| But specifically, what had occurred was that I noticed I had
| nearly fallen for an LLM-bot clone or takeover account from my
| contacts in my DM directing me to this "great recruiting firm"
| that looked to be just an identity docs siphoning scheme.
|
| That caused me to notice a bunch of new 1st-degree connections
| I hadn't added, all of which were profiles purporting to be
| Chinese AI researchers. No clue if they were real people and I
| didn't spend time to investigate before doing exactly what you
| describe - change of password and enable 2FA, with the added
| step of trying to report the suspicious circumstances to the
| obvious security@ etc email addresses... ALL attempts of which
| bounced with messages telling me to use the LinkedIn platform
| to report security issues, as those email addresses are not
| monitored. (lol)
|
| Of course, when I reluctantly tried to capitulate and report
| the matter using the links from the bounce messages, I found I
| could not, since my account was suddenly suspended for
| "suspicious activity", and the kicker was that in order to
| unsuspend it, they wanted me to upload scans of my government
| ID! Yes, they wanted me to do the suspicious sort of activity I
| was wanting to report was happening on their platform in order
| to use the very platform I suspected someone had already
| pilfered my identity through. I waited a week or so, too
| disgusted and angry and ready to write them off until, well..
| oh yeah, a job. my contacts. _sigh_
|
| Of course, that's also another example of the insecure patterns
| companies force on their users and employees while at the very
| same time giving them training to not do exactly those things,
| and exhibiting all the red flags they point out the employee
| needs to be aware of as indicators of phishing, etc.
|
| I was with a company that outsourced their security policy
| training and compliance to a company that sent "URGENT" emails
| from phish looking custom domains incorporating our company's
| name, and all the other red flags that told me not to do the
| things it asked. (so I didn't, and instead reported each one to
| our internal security team. It was funny until it wasn't.)
|
| Hey... Nice. There's that therapeutic rage-typing I never got
| around to, and this comment almost brings my comment back on
| topic. I feel a little better anyway. Thanks all!
| mfrisbie wrote:
| I kept catching myself scrolling down their idiotic feed and
| wondering what the hell I was doing. Mindless dreck, all of it.
| Yet I still get cold inbound from it that turns into business, so
| I can't just abandon the platform entirely.
|
| I wrote a ~50 LOC browser extension that always redirects away
| from the feed to your profile. Works great, sideload and forget.
|
| https://github.com/classvsoftware/nofeeds
| brycethornton wrote:
| Nice. I use one in the chrome store called News Feed
| Eradicator. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/news-feed-
| eradicato...
| mfrisbie wrote:
| Looks nice, but that extension is a high-value acquisition
| target for bad actors, and there's nothing but an email for
| contact information.
|
| Sideloading eliminates this risk completely.
| booleandilemma wrote:
| Every experienced LinkedIn user knows that you're not supposed to
| actually use LinkedIn.
| Hoasi wrote:
| Exactly
| lostlogin wrote:
| SuckedIn or ChainedIn would be more appropriate as a name.
| samstp wrote:
| I don't use it much and I haven't had your issues but I'm sick of
| the political and stupid, irrelevant content. It was supposed to
| be about professional networking and finding work. It's turning
| into Facebook and not the original Facebook,the horrible bloated
| mess it's become.
| cyanydeez wrote:
| Enshittification touched everything
| reagan83 wrote:
| This post feels like it should be on linkedin. Have we reached
| the point of LinkedIn-ify'ing HN?
| moffkalast wrote:
| > made me take a photo of myself and of my passport
|
| I'm not sure how this has become the go-to method for every site
| that needs person verification, and it's kinda terrifying because
| you just know they keep all of it stored somewhere forever with
| half assed security and the whole DB will get leaked sooner or
| later like it always is, leading to so much identity theft it's
| not even funny. The only camera that should ever get to see
| anyone's passport is the border police scanner.
|
| And I'm sure they say they delete all of it after verification,
| and then probably laugh about it afterwards if anyone believes
| that bullshit.
| RickS wrote:
| I've worked on some of this stuff. It was mandated by Know Your
| Customer (KYC) and Anti Money Laundering (AML) regulation on
| the finance industry, who developed smoother UX patterns and
| white-label vendors for doing such a thing, which helped
| normalize and simplify the process for other data-greedy
| sectors to adopt. Yes, marketing tried to pretty-please their
| way into data that should only have been for verification. To
| my knowledge they didn't succeed. On that attempt. At that
| company.
|
| That most financial regulations targeting bad actors end up
| constraining or disempowering regular people is a feature, not
| a bug. This is a really good thread: There is no freedom
| without the freedom to transact.
|
| https://nitter.net/punk6529/status/1494444624630403083#m
| m463 wrote:
| Sort of reminds me of hollywood. They used their power to
| push music/movie drm. This then was pushed into the computer
| industry (to play media), and then phones and tables became
| locked up/normalized (to play media), and then the locks have
| made all this other (disempowering regular people) stuff
| possible.
| gedy wrote:
| From your description, you created from another country? Perhaps
| non-western?
|
| I am not familiar with their internals but am assuming they deal
| with spam/scams and you are an unfortunate casualty.
| Me000 wrote:
| No i disagree X.com is the worst, was the other guy on this sub
| and I think you are correct on the whole point is the people that
| have a right and the people that do have the ability and ability
| are not necessarily people that have a responsibility.
| slashdev wrote:
| How is X worse?
| niceice wrote:
| They don't censor people. You can say anything as long as its
| legal.
| notahacker wrote:
| Nope, it's just the weird outlier where "cis" falls foul of
| its hate speech guidelines but Great Replacement Theory
| doesn't
| RIMR wrote:
| You forgot to add this:
|
| "Agree?"
| silisili wrote:
| LI has to be among the worst social media. The amount of constant
| self aggrandizing and obviously fabricated stories is
| insane(queue 'that homeless man was my boss!' memes).
|
| That said, it's not completely valueless. I keep it around to see
| what old coworkers are up to these days(career wise). I've also
| gotten a job from a recruiter who found me there. I'm guessing
| one or both of those are the only reasons anyone keeps it around.
| The content is pretty bad.
| epolanski wrote:
| cryingpicture.jpg
|
| I'm in ER, my father has just died.
|
| This is what it thought me about B2B sales.
|
| Read more
| omarhaneef wrote:
| If you found even a single job off of it, doesn't that mean
| it's great? This is its main purpose.
|
| Perhaps it could be better, but a lot of people would pay a lot
| for a single good job offer. And you accepted it.
| afandian wrote:
| Post-Twitter, in my corner of the world, scholarly publishing
| technology, people have moved to BlueSky, Mastodon and LinkedIn.
|
| I agree, LinkedIn is full of people performing their career as
| social media and posting selfies. But there is also useful
| information from orgs and people who moved off Twitter and
| shifted their weight to LinkedIn.
|
| Twitter was a unifying platform (maybe that was just accumulated
| through time) and the shakeup has benefited LinkedIn.
| Trasmatta wrote:
| The one upside is it generates so much amazing content for the
| r/LinkedinLunatics subreddit
| carimura wrote:
| But how will people possibly know how successful I am without
| it?!?
| coolgoose wrote:
| Genuinely curious what's a decent platform to keep in touch with
| companies and handle your career. Any tips?
| fuzztester wrote:
| all of them are the worst, dude.
|
| you know, like that famous quote: some people are more equal than
| others.
|
| or something like that anyway, I cannot be arsed to check for the
| exact one, because it's pathetic shit, not important.
|
| iirc it is from either of these two books by George Orwell:
| animal farm or 1984.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
| lostlogin wrote:
| > all of them are the worst, dude.
|
| Most social media doesn't tie directly to your work and
| profession. They all suck, but LinkedIn has a way uniquely
| painful way of hurting people.
|
| Though there seems to be a steady stream of people who have a
| sick day then post photos on IG of what they were actually
| doing.
| aleksjess wrote:
| LinkedIn is full of worthless posts full of users wanking each
| other off. Its the only place full of "get out of bed early,
| quite drinking soy lattes, inherit wealth" type of posts where it
| doesn't get challenged (maybe X is another one).
|
| I genuinely might prefer reading AI-generated crap, because then
| I feel better about humanity.
| rightbyte wrote:
| The chain mail kidnapping of peoples' Hotmail accounts should
| have told us enough about the integrety of the site from the get
| go.
|
| "Growth hack".
| QuantumGood wrote:
| Of course, worldwide, setting up new profiles is (burecratically)
| discouraged, due to fake profiles with AI help hammering the
| networks and marketplaces. Harder than even to set up a new
| profile for any purpose.
| Apocryphon wrote:
| Counterpoint: it is the perfect platform for Ken Cheng
| m463 wrote:
| lol
|
| > Kenneth Yuan-Ke Cheng is a British-Chinese former
| professional poker player and comedian. Cheng has won the 2017
| Funniest Joke of the Fringe, and a 2023 BBC Audio Drama Award
| for Best Comedy. He additionally became popular on LinkedIn in
| 2024 for his satirical posts in which he poses as a CEO.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Cheng
| Apocryphon wrote:
| Every social network finds its own luminary
| lostlogin wrote:
| You haven't quite finished the saga though. When you finally
| decide to quit (I did, having suffered a lot less pain than you),
| you can't.
|
| They follow you. They email you, they are relentless. I'm 10+
| years on the outside and still they spam.
| croisillon wrote:
| so while we are all here: what do you people wish LinkedIn had
| and had not?
| i_love_retros wrote:
| The people who regularly post and comment on linked in about how
| great their company is are the ones who will take your job when
| you go on paternity leave.
| t067633 wrote:
| I was on LinkedIn for years. I quit a couple of years ago and
| have not regretted it one bit. I hasn't resulted in a single sale
| or new client for me. It's really for salesmen and headhunter and
| perhaps government officials, not technical people.
| kobieps wrote:
| The worst
| c-c-c-c-c wrote:
| It's useless as a social media or to interact with but excellent
| when you're looking to reach out to John at Corpo Corp who you
| met somewhere.
|
| ...or to check what your high scool girlfriend is up to 20 years
| later.
| jauco wrote:
| It's quite hilarious. I clicked on a linkedin link in one of the
| comments and it opened the app (which I haven't opened for a
| while)
|
| The app then proceeded to show me a cookie banner.
|
| The 'refuse' button in the cookie banner responds to my click (it
| changes color while pressed) but does not remove the banner.
|
| I guess I can only remove the banner by clicking "accept"?
| nelup20 wrote:
| The actual jobs and networking aspect is fine imo, but I loathe
| the feed/content, even the SWE-related stuff is a lot of times
| bad or clickbaity.
|
| I hide the feed + sidebar with a uBlock Origin filter and it's a
| much nicer experience: linkedin.com##main[aria-label="Main
| Feed"],aside[aria-label="Add to your feed"]
| pcmaffey wrote:
| Link to close your account:
| https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1379064/closi...
|
| What I wrote about closing mine: https://pcmaffey.com/finally-i-
| closed-my-linkedin
|
| 5 years later no regrets.
| behnamoh wrote:
| Anything MSFT touches goes to shit, and LI is no exception.
|
| One day I randomly checked my credit card and found that LI had
| charged me $60 for having a PREMIUM BUSINESS plan! I'm not a
| business owner, and last time I had any subscription was one
| month in 2024. Their system is totally unreliable.
|
| And anytime a website blocks basic functionalities (e.g., who
| viewed my profile) for non-paying users, I know enshitification
| has already taken place.
| adfm wrote:
| Stop complaining and post examples of good social media geared
| towards professional contacts and career development below.
| technion wrote:
| Since they added a "videos for you" section they completely
| acknowledged they've given up on trying to be the professional
| site they once were. I can't even open this at work because as
| soon you scroll it auto plays a video with titles likes
| "following elon musks lead to become an alpha male and slay it in
| the bedroom".
| alephnerd wrote:
| > Besides being full of AI-generated, useless content
|
| I've found some pretty decent content if you're able to tune the
| recommender algo - the content reaches mid-2010s HN's noise-to-
| signal ratio if done right.
|
| After Twitter/X degraded, a lot of Policy, VC, IB, PE, and
| DevTools+Cybersecurity shifted to used LinkedIn for posts, and a
| lot of unfiltered criticism does arise.
|
| It does require an extreme commitment to tuning the algo
| (proactively removing content from your feed AND upvoting content
| you like).
|
| That said, I don't think you'll find much purely technical
| content, but even HN sucks for that now. I'd use Lobste.rs for
| that (which reminds me of pre-COVID HN).
|
| > the platform is also riddled with dark patterns
|
| Yep, but that's expected for most platforms who's success metrics
| are judged based on usage.
| mancerayder wrote:
| Lobst.rs seems much quieter, and almost all posts are
| programming related. It's very narrow.
| A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 wrote:
| I personally had a decent presence some years ago ( upwards of
| 10k followers ), but I dropped it, when it became clear that
| noise far outweighed the signal. I will admit that I am in a
| weird spot now, because soon I will be coaching kids to real job
| interviews ( and they are normally instructed to use LinkedIn to
| connect with their coaches ).. and I will feel obligated to point
| out that they may want to benefit from a different type of
| exposure ( github, portfolio page, email ).
|
| TLDR: I dislike LinkedIn and what it has become ( because it did
| bring me some value before.. and I fear that is coming for github
| too ), but I struggle to offer a good alternative to people that
| are just starting since HR depts effectively EXPECT you to have
| one.
| Devasta wrote:
| Meta has legions of people working tirelessly to give it's users
| mental disorders, be it on Facebook turning your elderly
| relatives into racists and transphobes or Instagram giving young
| women body image disorders, and yet somehow everyone on those
| sites is a paragon of logic and reason compared to the average
| linkedin poster.
|
| It's insane how it got this bad with no competitor trying to take
| its place.
| mancerayder wrote:
| I hate it, but it's a job search engine basically?
|
| What's wrong with just sticking to that one use case? Posting
| about how you're a "problem solved, founder, writer, sports fan,
| recruiter , marathon runner -- and father" gets old quickly. That
| stuff can mostly be ignored and there's always Gaviscon or Tums
| when it gets really bad.
|
| But yes, I use it for letting recruiters contact me.
| Liebmann5 wrote:
| Correct me if I'm wrong but the dumb thing was literally but to
| help people find and apply to jobs. I login then to go search for
| jobs in my city and the 1st 200 pages of recommended jobs are all
| labeled US. We really need to mass delete our LinkedIn's and all
| agree to utilize indeed because unlike LinkedIn they've gotten
| significantly better at helping the user.
|
| Also, if anyone hates LinkedIn and the current hiring process
| with a burning passion. I've been working on a software that auto
| applies to jobs for users and could use help. I've been working
| on it for 2 years and am honestly almost done but want to make it
| divine. The idea you ask? A user fills out 1 job application and
| just waits for emails to come in.
| icnexbe7 wrote:
| it still works pretty well for its intended purpose.
|
| i voluntarily left work for several months last year, when i was
| ready to enter the workforce again i made the template "open to
| work" post. within a day or so a VP who I know saw the post and
| offered me a job on his team. pretty much every job i've gotten
| is via linked in
| Henchman21 wrote:
| Ah yes, LinkedIn, the site that, after my father passed away,
| harvested contacts from me and then sent me email purporting to
| be from my recently deceased father asking me to join LinkedIn.
|
| Classy move guys. Been shitty sonce '15 at least!
| dkarl wrote:
| LinkedIn has sunk lower than Facebook. Like Facebook, every once
| in a while I use it to look up somebody I used to know or to
| remind myself of a name I've forgotten. If I look somebody up and
| see that they're actually posting and engaging on the platform, I
| feel bad for them.
|
| I say it's lower than Facebook because I know people who rely on
| Facebook for legitimately useful things -- niche communities and
| local groups that just happened to coalesce on Facebook and were
| vital enough to survive the decline of the platform. I've never
| heard of anything similar on LinkedIn.
|
| There's no legitimate use of LinkedIn that will keep people on it
| if they stop seeing it as a necessity.
| pnw wrote:
| I've used it since they launched it and have paid for premium for
| years. I probably use it multiple times a day and have never had
| a single issue. Yes, it's a commercial social network and the
| self-aggrandizing posts are terrible, but I don't really pay
| attention to them. I feel the same way about Instagram and other
| social media which I don't pay attention to.
|
| I use it as a way to maintain and leverage my network and learn
| about people and companies. I don't know how I'd stay current
| with the many thousands of people I've met over the years
| otherwise. Manually curate a mailing list?
|
| I get that it doesn't work for people who don't work in tech
| and/or don't see the value in maintaining work connections. I
| find it's often those people asking me how they can find a job
| when they've put zero effort into it over the years.
| nikolamus wrote:
| I fight back against cringe content by leaving cringe comments.
| varsketiz wrote:
| What did you do to get shadow banned?
| metalman wrote:
| take two biege pills and try again tommorow, if you are still
| feeling enthusiastic or creative and energetic in any way, the
| dose can be adjusted till you achive total blandness, then you
| can start to slowly build your contacts, to some completely
| improbable number and achive biegevana
| AlienRobot wrote:
| I wouldn't want to be new to the Internet these days.
|
| Everything requires your phone number, sometimes photo or even
| ID. You can get flagged as a bot randomly and they won't even
| tell you.
|
| When I signed up for Instagram, I was banned before I could even
| log in, but they didn't tell me about it, so I thought the sign
| up process had just failed. I only found out after googling it.
|
| I had similar problems creating a Twitter account. On Reddit, you
| can't even post threads on most subreddits at first.
|
| Conversely, signing up on Tumblr, Pinterest, Bluesky, and
| Mastodon was pretty easy and didn't require a phone number or
| app.
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