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Comment by paulie_a | Hacker News Reader

LinkedIn uselessness with Facebook creepiness™

I actually like LinkedIn because hey know they are the internet’s Rolodex and (more importantly) people on the site mostly use it that way. If I were pressured by society/peers to be “active” on LinkedIn in the same way we are pressured in an abstract sense to be on Facebook, it would lose all utility for me.

To be fair they became the internet's rolodex by outright stealing your address book and sending fake invites to people on your behalf.

And now they have put a join-wall that is hard to circumvent (erasing cookies does not seem to suffice). It is one of the reasons why I hope to never join Linkedin.

After deleting my account, I've had to look up a couple people recently and encountered that. My only thought is: "thanks LinkedIn for making yourself increasingly irrelevant"

What bugs me is getting asked by people I know in a personal context to recommend them professionally. I can vouch that they are reasonably nice, but I don't know anything about their work.

If I worked directly with someone and know they're good, I'm happy to endorse that.

Oof, imagine browsing through prospective plumbers' Facebook profiles... Just adds a whole layer... of... weirdness.

Are you implying that LinkedIn isn't creepy?

It's not creepy, it's pushy.

¿Por que no los dos?

I found my current job on LinkedIn.

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