I hate being on LinkedIn, there are no real humans there, only an endless series of “thought leaders” all publishing the same liberal capitalist nonsense about market trends and what’s hot. Every horrible news story about movers and shakers in the industry gets shared and commented in a never ending stream of “market analysis”. People constantly trying to promote themselves as the next Steve Jobs. Not a single thinking or feeling human being in there.
If you thought facebook made people disingenuous, at this point opening my LinkedIn profile is like staring into the void and seeing the ravages of capitalism play out before my very eyes.
Last year i was unemployed and had to use it, it is really fucking awful
I’m on LinkedIn, and I hate it, but there’s almost no way to get a job in the US, especially in my field, without it. I envy you free bastards
I never got a job through LinkedIn. I guess you would need it it for corporate positions but for everyone else they just use it to show off accolades for nosey interviewers looking for social media.
You didn’t get a job through LinkedIn but you definitely DIDN’T get a job if you’re not on LinkedIn. That’s what sucks.
Yes I did, but I’m in an industry that hires anyone that can pass a piss test so…
There’s a lot of industries where your hands are too dirty to type on a keyboard so LinkedIn is out of the question.
It’s impressive that LinkedIn manages to be the worst social media site in a world in which Reddit, Twitter and Facebook exist (probably not worst in terms of content on it but the idea of having to use a social media site in the right way to get a job is fucking dystopian)
