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.
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.
I mean in my field, you're still correct wherever you're doing your thing.
Last year i was unemployed and had to use it, it is really fucking awful
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)
had to make one for an internship program. truly an abhorrent website. corporate culture needs to die
If you understood markets well enough to make money on crack, you wouldn't be broke enough to need linkedin. Coke dealers are great at networking. LinkedIn is simulated networking for people with fake jobs that don't actually require it.
Sam Seder once did an interview with Professor Julie Wilson that really captured all my hatred and anxieties of the current Neoliberal hellworld, particularly as it relates to social media. TLDR; neoliberalisms impact and commodification of human social interaction has created a world where we no longer think of ourselves as a person...but rather as a brand. In turn we no longer view our peers as our peers...but rather as our competition.
There is no better distillation of that horror then LinkedIn.
