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If you don’t need LinkedIn, don’t use it, I can’t think of any other “social media” platform that’s so cringy and weird like LinkedIn, there’s something off putting about it that no matter how I promise myself to be active there, I stop after one day. If you need it however, just get a burner phone, that’s what I do, I have a second number for all these kind of stuff, my personal never shared in any online service.

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It's indeed sickening how seemingly sane people constantly repeat the company PR line like brainless little corporate drones. Or post stupid jokes or "investment opportunities". I immediately unfollow everyone on my feed when I see them do that. I have very few people still on it.

LinkedIn brings out the worst in people but in a really weird corporate PR packaging. Or some people really believe in their own marketing. I can't decide what's worse.

Ps I also hate all the sales people using LinkedIn to find my details and offer commercial services, usually totally irrelevant to my job. I block them and their companies immediately. But I wish I could report them to spamhaus or something. Microsoft 365 does nothing with the reports because most spammers are also their customers.

LinkedIn is hot nuclear garbage. Most of the job listings are ghost jobs and the rest are ones I'd not want anyway.

I'm adding "hot nuclear garbage" to my maledictionary and will use it proudly (with attribution.)

I had an account in 2013 for about a month. I was old back then and quickly got sick of entry level jobs in unrelated fields "recommended" to me along with the gagworthy "Boosters-Pep!" corporate religion articles.

It's easy to distinguish which jobs are fake and which are legit. At least in IT I can do that. Linkedin is crap, but it's one of the places in which you can get to know which companies are out there.

I won't be the one defending Linkedin, but:

- I got all my jobs via Linkedin (e.g., either a recruiter reaches to me, or I reach a recruiter working for company X, or I search through their job ads, etc.)

- I do not use Linkedin for anything other than job search. So one can easily not look at their timeline nor stupid social posts (linkedin notifications are off, and I do not receive any notification via email)

So, yeah, it sucks if they start asking for phone numbers.

I created a linkedin account once, didn't even post any resume, and it somehow found and connected me to coworkers from many years ago, whom I absolutely didn't want to know where I work and what I'm doing. Beyond creepy. I deleted account immediately and won't touch linkedin with a ten foot pole.

Unfortunately all social media has become hot garbage. I re-activated my LinkedIn account because my job is at risk right now and I have no other way to contact former co-workers.

Twitter used to be my way to keep in touch. Alas.

It gives me Cyberpunk vibes.

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