what do people use LinkedIn for?

[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

[sean_ae@post.lurk.org]

@nske wow ok

[kaneel@mas.to]

@sean_ae free circus show

[sean_ae@post.lurk.org]

@ben most of these would make good track titles for a techno album

Security Check - Indeed.com

(www.indeed.com)

[sean_ae@post.lurk.org]

@gabrielesvelto interesting

[trog@ravenation.club]

@sean_ae @logickal On the rarity I have to sign into it for work, I usually wind up seeing modular synth vids posted by Richard Devine, so there's at least some semblance of light in that endless scroll hellscape.

[cian@post.lurk.org]

@sean_ae Career bullshitting, and self-debasement, in the hope it will get you a better job. It won't.

[thisisnotparakovsky@convo.casa]

@sean_ae DATA HOARDING

[mrzool@mastodon.online]

@elifyalvac @sean_ae they forgot “digital creator”

[changterhune@mastodon.social]

@sean_ae @ben over the wall is an Echo & The Bunnymen song but more importantly Boil The Ocean is dope

[changterhune@mastodon.social]

@ben @sean_ae it me. I keep one for some reason though I don’t plan to work anywhere that wants it. I had to get it for a continuing education thing. Ugh.

[phaysis@mastodon.coffee]

@sean_ae Signaling to my management that I'm a flight risk by updating my resume.

[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