Comment by glitchc
2 days ago
Do LinkedIn as well. I got rid of it earlier this year. The "I am so humbled/blessed to be promoted/reassigned/fired.." posts reached a level of parody that I just couldn't stomach any longer. I felt more free immediately.
N.B. Still employed btw.
You can have a LinkedIn profile without reading the feed.
This is literally how most of the world uses LinkedIn
I never understand why people feel compelled to delete their entire account to avoid reading the feed. Why were you even visiting the site to see the feed if you didn’t want to see the feed?
Yeah I just LinkedIn as a public resume and message system with recruiters. Though even that goes through my email
LinkedIn bothers me the least, even though it definitely has some of the highest level of cringe content. It's still a good tool to interact with recruiters, look at companies and reach out to their employees. The trick is blocking the feed with a browser extension.
Sorting the feed by "recent" at least gives you a randomized assortment of self aggrandizement, instead of algorithmically enhanced ragebait
Better suggestion: Ignore the feed if you don’t like it.
Don’t visit the site unless you have a reason to, like searching for jobs, recruiting, or looking someone up.
I will never understand these posts that imply that you’re compelled to read the LinkedIn feed unless you delete your account. What’s compelling you people to visit the site and read the feed if you hate it so much? I don’t understand.
Did you just post basically the same reply to two comments 2 minutes apart? :)
This. Linkedin is garbage, yet I still use it because there are no competitors. This is what happens in a monoculture.
Do you really want a “competitor” to linkedin? Do you really want to have to make and manage accounts on multiple sites because you need a job and you don’t know which a company uses?
Isn’t it better to have a single place you check when you need a job because everyone else is also there?
As someone who doesn't, and never has, had a linkedin. What would a "competitor" look like? There's plenty of job boards. What are you using linkedin for?
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I have a special, deep, loathing for linkedin. I honestly can't believe how horrible it is and I don't understand why people engage with it.
I don't understand how people can be so dismissive of LinkedIn purely for its resume function.
For essentially every "knowledge worker" profession with a halfway decent CV, a well kept LinkedIn resume can easily make a difference of $X0,000 in yearly salary, and the initial setup takes one to a few hours. It's one of the best ROI actions many could do for their careers.
How dismissive many engineers are of doing that and the justifications for that are often full of privilege.
Sorry, gotta be Holden Caufield on this one, though I take your point.
I think this statement is highly dependent on market and geography. I, for one, have mostly received scams. For the occassional real contact, we shifted away from LinkedIn as soon as we could after the basic hello.
You have a special loathing for a site where you can message professional contacts when you need to?
Nobody is forcing you to use the social networking features. Just use it as a way to keep in touch with coworkers.