what do people use LinkedIn for?

[ben@s.djehuti.com]

@sean_ae Appeasing recruiters.

[sean_ae@post.lurk.org]

@exinith i thought that was what instagram was for

[lime@post.lurk.org]

@sean_ae posting stupid IT and "entrepreneurship" bullshit, mostly written with an LLM

[sean_ae@post.lurk.org]

@ben right i see

[ben@s.djehuti.com]

@sean_ae I guess there are also individuals who use it to "build their brand" but all of my colleagues just have it because they "have to." They all want to delete but few actually do.

[lime@post.lurk.org]

@sean_ae when I was working as a backend developer I remember seeing a colleague posting useless stuff about devops (cloud/network admin stuff) every damn day it was so silly.
once I left this job I basically deleted my linkedin account

[lislegaard@sonomu.club]

@sean_ae

judging by the website it looks like

- stalking "business people"
- playing online games

[ben@s.djehuti.com]

@sean_ae It is a bog of buzzwords.

[sean_ae@post.lurk.org]

@ben people using nouns as verbs lol

[logickal@ravenation.club]

@lislegaard @sean_ae this is an accurate assessment. In the US, you can guarantee that if you’re trying to get a job anyplace even a little corporate, this is the first place they’ll check up on you. Same with salespeople finding out about who to stalk.

[ben@s.djehuti.com]

@sean_ae See also https://mstdn.social/@qurlyjoe/116433882845767170

[sean_ae@post.lurk.org]

@ben blue sky thinking

[tg_esq@metalhead.club]

@sean_ae
Proving it *is* possible to hate a social media platform more than Meta.

[elifyalvac@tldr.nettime.org]

@sean_ae

yesterday an article popped up in my instance with a linkedin link and I asked a similar question to myself.

[nielso@digitalcourage.social]

@sean_ae

I tried to use it connect to colleagues in the field and potentially customers, but found that it was so full of offensively successful people not caring about other people it made me feel sick.

The really interesting people however were either not on LinkedIn or not using it actively, because they apparently don't have time to bother with that kind of stuff.

Or, in case of companies, I was not connecting to people but to social media departments… these being PR folks, and not potential clients / decision makers.

(Working freelance in event tech mainly.)

[pabloctz@mastodon.social]

@sean_ae contribute to absurdity, find pimps and apply for jobs

[nske@ravenation.club]

@sean_ae I think the universal credit people force you to sign up because they think there's actual 'jobs' on there.

[gabrielesvelto@mas.to]

@sean_ae https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-19328-5

[pabloctz@mastodon.social]

@ben @sean_ae it needs more trolling definitely, is flooded of toxic positivity.

[sean_ae@post.lurk.org]

@nielso cheers, good info