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I'm not on FB, but I did recently join LinkedIn for work reasons and holy god it's awful - only thing on my TL is posts from recruiters and LI asking me to celebrate somebody spending a year at 'looking for new opportunities'. After I get my next contract i'm off there.

Only thing with any value to me is Twitter, and that's only reactively when i'm looking if there's an outage.

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I find the latest update to LinkedIn unfortunate, given it's authoring UI is complete crap, UX-wise. I really can't see anything of use to me anymore over there, so my visits are becoming less frequent. I used to have good conversations with connections. Now all I get is recruiter invites and companies looking to do "business" with me, mostly out of Eastern Europe.

Twitter, on the other hand, is somewhat entertaining, given I have a decent amount of followers who may or may not be listening to my random rants. A minor ego boost, at best, but still probably a very large illusion on my part. It's fun to pretend though! ;)

Honestly, I have to say this place, HN, feels the closest to home. Or playing Rust, depending.

Rust... that game where you gather wood in the nude for five minutes before somebody kills you, over and over? ;P

That's the one. Hardest game ever. Love it.

LinkedIn is also a case study on dark pattern UI. I honestly do not understand how a company can fuck up their product to such a degree and still have such traction. Blows my mind.

When I interviewed there a few years ago I got the impression that their product is LFDD: Lord of the Flies Driven Development. Pick an idea implemented on another site, pick whatever language you like, then push it out.

I think you missed a step where they figure out a shady way to get as many users opted into the new feature as possible, regardless of if they actually want it or not. But yeah, that sounds about what I'd expect.

forgive me it's been many years since I read Lord of the Flies, I might have forgotten stuff, but but how is that related?

LinkedIn comprises a cargo-culted feature mix implemented with little consistency by those least qualified (or maybe just least-empowered) to judge the can/should question.

> I did recently join LinkedIn for work reasons and holy god it's awful

I have an account I opened a while ago and I just enter from time to time, or when someone asks to add me as a contact. Every single post is just mindless corporate self-help.

LinkedIn is quite similar to facebook in the techniques and tricks they use. The difference is that LinkedIn comes directly from the paypal mafia while facebook was funded by the paypal mafia. And LinkedIn has a professional spin onto it.

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