what do people use LinkedIn for?

[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]

@ben @sean_ae

"
Exciting News: I’m launching a new venture!

Are you dealing with toxic leadership or unaligned stakeholders? For a small monthly investment of just $5, I’m offering a bespoke "Disruptive Feedback" service.

Every time they share a "thought leadership" piece, I’ll jump into the comments to provide a radical transparency check by letting them know: "That’s a stupid idea."

Let’s disrupt the status quo together! #Entrepreneurship #Disruption #RadicalCandor #NewVenture #WorkplaceCulture
"
https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=linkedin&text=Starting+a+new+business.+Do+you+have+an+annoying+boss+or+pretentious+coworker%3F+For+the+low+price+of+%245%2Fmonth+I%27ll+comment+on+their+LinkedIn+%22that%27s+a+stupid+idea%22+everytime+they+post+something.

[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]

This post is deleted!

[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

[nixtrove@ohai.social]

@ghostmeet @sean_ae That scares me a bit. Just a bit.