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God forbid I'd be "slightly mocked". Especially when it's about my ideals on not using a scummy company's product.

That aside, people who judge others by their (non-)use of social media are the worst. Someone who mocks friends for not using facebook is not a good friend. Someone who mocks colleagues for not being on LinkedIn is not a good person to work with.

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I just mean, we can't possible do our jobs without it. A big part of my company is sales, so even us Engineers need to be on linkedin with filled out profiles to make the company look legit. Also, all the sales people need to ask us for introduction to people we know. When a sales person here is trying to reach company X, they see an engineer knows another engineer there and boom - the connection is made. Trying to not be on linkedin here would be like swimming upstream.

I have a LinkedIn account, but I've literally never used it for anything. afaik not having it wouldn't have inconvenienced me at any point so far. I'm sure it's pretty far out of date at this point.

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