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Don't shit where you eat.

LinkedIn just isn't for Jobs Anymore. It's Now a Pile of Trash.

Ads about pushing your career, then more ads about how to create a better work life balance. And everybody seems to be a coach who tries to push their courses about the above mentioned topics. Thanks but I'll pass.

Don’t worry office creeps who make unwanted advances towards coworkers, LinkedIn has your back. A new harassment platform for a new age.

Every app is a dating app if you're persistent enough.

In case you want to date the most annoying people on earth

LinkedIn is trash, it's a glorified resume where narcissists go to brag about themselves.

Adding a dating feature is only going to benefit two groups of people: the ones who have the highest paying jobs, and people who are looking to be with someone for their money. For everyone else, this is just going to make LinkedIn more repulsive than it already was.

Edit - I'm lazy, ignore this and read the article

LinkedIn is an aggregation of everything wrong with social media. I got laid off and tried to use it to find a job, never again.

Right, so I've lived my whole life constantly being told that I can't read social cues and that everyone else has this magical ability to understand subtext and all that. Which makes this article so confusing to me because it reads like the author is so oblivious to how people actually work.

The article can be summed up as basically:

• Turns out, people can find love by talking to each other and don't need specially designed apps.
• But it can't happen organically, you need to use some app to do so and look out specifically for love. Obviously.
• Relationships are entirely transactional and are based on your partner's academic and business performance.

All with this creepy undertone that sexual harassment should be delegated to a footnote and subject to a cost-benefit analysis rather than, you know, avoided entirely.

This has been happening for a long long time now. There is a reason why many women do not post a headshot on Linked In.

My wife was looking for a new gig 5 years ago, and was constantly getting tons of DMs from dudes who wanted to fuck. And her pic was pretty damn conservative/ professional. Just a headshot with a smile.

There should be some sort of way of flagging and shaming these creeps.

I used to browse linkedin all the time, and found that my contacts shared interesting articles and links that related to my job. I got 2 jobs from listing shared by my network that I'd never have found otherwise.

But it's been years since that time, and now it is a cesspool of shameless fake humble bragging and totally non-work appropriate content. I've been hit on multiple times with men trying to get me to chat with them about really personal stuff in DMs.

I'm job hunting now, and it's one of my main methods for finding opportunities but otherwise I wouldn't log on at all.

"No it's not." Me, reading this headline.

As i tell everyone else, LinkdIn is a glorified facebook for boomers. The only time i will ever update my profile is if I am looking for a job.

Not surprised when people started treating LinkedIn like their Facebook years ago.

Was it ever for jobs?

Been an active user for well over 5 years and not one interaction has resulted in a job.

A bunch of people acting like they were hiring, sure.

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Like I know tinder is deeply enshittified, but please. I don't need this.

#OpenToLove

I already had an older man try to slide into my DMs

Gross

To misquote John Waters,

If you go home with someone and they have LinkedIn in their browser history, don't fuck them!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

While each of the men had the plausible deniability of a connection or two in common with her, she said it was immediately clear that their motives were not strictly professional — one of them worked in the oil industry, a field far removed from anything she'd ever done for a living.

In an age with so many dedicated dating platforms — from giants such as Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge to niche apps including Feeld (for the unconventional), Pure (for the noncommittal), and NUiT (for the astrologically inclined) — why mix Cupid's arrow with corporate updates?

Because the professional-networking site asks users to link to their current and former employers' profile pages, it offers an additional layer of credibility that other social-media platforms lack.

In his bio, Hotz declared that he now used the site "exclusively as a dating platform" and laid out a catalog of requisite attributes — "intelligent, attractive, female, in or visiting San Diego" — for his ideal match.

"If someone is willing to take their time and let the initial professional connection evolve in a way that is mutually respectful," Yager said, "and if both parties somehow communicate their availability for romance, and they want to go the next step — which might mean a phone or Zoom call or meeting in person in a safe public place — hopefully it is a win-win."

A significant proportion of younger professionals may have missed out on this type of in-person workplace camaraderie altogether, which could help to explain LinkedIn's recent surge in popularity among teens and 20-somethings.

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I finally pulled the trigger on it and put mine on hibernate. Will activate it again if I’m looking for work, but hopefully not in the near future (just started a new job last month).