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LinkedIn has become such a cringefest it's not even funny anymore. It got worse than Twitter which only is still in everyone's mind because pseudo-relevant Tweets are screenshotted easily and reposted at all corners of the Internet. Not because it's good content, but because these post have the right visual dimensions to allow for such type of borrowed content.

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As someone who has just joined the workforce in the past few years, I have never understood LinkedIn. The job hunting seems like a budget version of Indeed or similar. The "social media" aspect is by far the least engaging, most spammy, useless stream of information that's possible. The recruiters on there ruin things even further, adding to the pile of spam that we already deal with. I really don't see the point of LinkedIn past declaring who you work for.

I use it mainly as a digital rolodex. But that's about it. Not that it would be possible to schedule meetings easily and follow-up with conversations. But then, this would make it an email client.

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