LinkedIn and hammers have one thing in common: they are tools to get something else done, they are not the end game. In that they are similar, in everything else they are not.

This commonality (both being tools) is crucial to the reason that I chose hammers and not apple pies, "Dance Dance Revolution" games, Iron Man animated series or the Federal Reserve as examples for my analogy. These would not hold any kind of substance at all (liquid or otherwise).

Each tool has its own place and time. If there's a recession and Cap finds himself unemployed, then LinkedIn will be much more valuable to him despite the minor inconveniences that it might cause (i.e. spam). In fact these inconveniences might become a welcome and even desired feature of the product.

My point is that renouncing tool X when you can't find a use case for it has become a fashion of sorts that irks me.

Please note, that I don't deny anyone the right to follow this movement, but I also reserve the right to be annoyed by it and share my emotional state and receive validation that such state is shared by a large number of other people, at least according to the upvotes on my post.