I am sure that some journalists interview PR people from Microsoft and some self-promoters who promote the idea of promoting themselves on LinkedIn and say it is great.
I think they've gone down the road of harvesting.
I don't know if anybody is left at LinkedIn rather than life coaches, scam artists, offshore development companies, self-promoters, "business development" people, salesmen who can't sell (maybe that is what "business development" means?), recruiters that can't recruit (ex. they have been contacting you for years because you once said something about Cold Fusion and they badly need somebody to move to Nome, Alaska but they never hire remotes...), people who seem to write 20 articles about data science a day that verge on word salad (you'd think if they knew that much they could write a better neural network to generate the text.) And people who are gullible enough to think that there is some value in sending somebody an InMail or using all of those search features they sell so you can do more refined searches of life coaches, self promoters, ...
Numerous design problems with how the forums work mean that good discussions get drowned out. The same fraudulent messages get spammed that were being spammed six years ago and they won't do, don't do, or can't do anything about it
LinkedIn has closed off most access to the API and you cannot get anything interesting out of it... except all of the email addresses of your contacts so if you do that "Lion" thing you will probably need to change your email address at some point. (I think many people don't know they get so much spam because they have a LinkedIn account.)
I am on the threshold of nuking my Facebook account now that I've disconnected all of the sites that I need to log in that use Facebook. I still haven't decided if I nuke my LinkedIn account or just delete 95% of my contacts.
I think they've gone down the road of harvesting.
I don't know if anybody is left at LinkedIn rather than life coaches, scam artists, offshore development companies, self-promoters, "business development" people, salesmen who can't sell (maybe that is what "business development" means?), recruiters that can't recruit (ex. they have been contacting you for years because you once said something about Cold Fusion and they badly need somebody to move to Nome, Alaska but they never hire remotes...), people who seem to write 20 articles about data science a day that verge on word salad (you'd think if they knew that much they could write a better neural network to generate the text.) And people who are gullible enough to think that there is some value in sending somebody an InMail or using all of those search features they sell so you can do more refined searches of life coaches, self promoters, ...
Numerous design problems with how the forums work mean that good discussions get drowned out. The same fraudulent messages get spammed that were being spammed six years ago and they won't do, don't do, or can't do anything about it
LinkedIn has closed off most access to the API and you cannot get anything interesting out of it... except all of the email addresses of your contacts so if you do that "Lion" thing you will probably need to change your email address at some point. (I think many people don't know they get so much spam because they have a LinkedIn account.)
I am on the threshold of nuking my Facebook account now that I've disconnected all of the sites that I need to log in that use Facebook. I still haven't decided if I nuke my LinkedIn account or just delete 95% of my contacts.