what do people use LinkedIn for?

[sfn@mastodon.world]

@sean_ae its used quite heavily in movies / vfx as the turnaround rate of ppl is quite fast, recruiters messaging mostly, am never opening it ever unless i get a message for work cuz its like a gathering place for insufferable ppl who post bullshit all day

[qebo@c.im]

@sean_ae My experience: I've been approached by HR departments a few times with legit offers. The platform is also useful to monitor opening positions and getting job alerts in your field. Apart from that, drama and weirdness exists but choosing who to follow (seasoned professionals in my case) can be pretty curated and sane. I've read interesting articles and opinion pieces as well, mostly from industry leaders.

Could I live without it? Sure.

[sfn@mastodon.world]

@sean_ae shit like "I went to a job interview today. In front of the building, there was a dog begging for food. I turned around and walked 4 kms for some food, and was 30 mins late to the interview. Turns out, the dog was the CEO of the company. Moral of the story: always be kind." and they type like they put a . after every 2 words honestly mad people

[nixtrove@ohai.social]

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[dtauvdiodr@c.im]

@sean_ae It's an echo chamber owned by Microsoft that business people use to feed the data collector sorcerers.

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@sean_ae getting surveilled

[billygomberg@social.ordinal.garden]

@sean_ae @exinith different flavors of depression

[emenel@post.lurk.org]

@billygomberg @sean_ae @exinith instagram is for unemployed depression, linkedin is for job related depression.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@sean_ae to pretend to be AI spam bots, I presume.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@logickal @lislegaard @sean_ae it's become increasingly worthless to the point that, as a director of sales, I've gotten rid of linkedin. No one real actually looks at it. It's either skimmed poorly by AI, or an army of salesforce cadets who were all promised they'd make amazing commissions and little pay if they go and spam everyone they possibly can on linkedin with AI giving them "targets" with very unreliably accuracy. It's all just stupid. Very Microsoft, such wow.

[fedor@todon.nl]

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[ruenahcmohr@infosec.exchange]

@sean_ae I used it to find some old work colleagues once upon a time.

[kama11@mastodon.social]

@sean_ae just a bunch of people trying to out-corpo each other from what I can tell.. was talking to my partner today how I find the concept quite morbid if that's the right word for it.. obv most socials are p rotten, but there's something really off putting in the way linkedin is designed and how interviewers look at you when you say you don't use it. Like it's a pre-requisite these days to have a polished linkedin profile to even be considered for a bunch of positions.

[toffo@mastodon.social]

@sean_ae disappointment

[billygomberg@social.ordinal.garden]

@emenel @sean_ae @exinith two bad tastes that taste bad together

[thebothand@mastodon.social]

@sean_ae dunno sorry

[defaultmediatransmitter@social.bitwig.community]

@mrzool @elifyalvac @sean_ae they also forgot "AI music producer"

[nixtrove@ohai.social]

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[ghostmeet@mastodon.social]

@Nixtrove @sean_ae yeah -- and when I worked in an organisation, people there would use it during Zoom calls to remind themselves of who the fuck you are.

[logotype@infosec.exchange]

@Kama11 @sean_ae yeah LinkedIn is toxic for sure. But at the same time, so many people are on the network. Managed to connect with Richard Devine, Ian at TDR and people at Warp Besides that, quite good for connections if you work in tech too. But the LinkedIn posts are ultra cringe