I was reacquainted with two former collegues through LinkedIn. I had no contact with either in more than 20 years.
Thant alone makes if worth while for me, despite the problems and the emails. My delete button works well, and there is no charge for using it. of all the annoyances on the internet, LinkedIn invitations are far from the most egregious. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Malcolm Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Bruce Walker wrote: > >> I use(d) LinkedIn to manage and host my resume, and it is(was) my >> professional addressbook. As my link into The Old Boys Network I >> indirectly got jobs through it. I use the present(past) tense as I'm >> retired from IT but I still don't have my head fully around that. :) >> >> But I hate the UI and its terrible builtin messaging. It's even worse >> than Facebook. And the groups features - gah! Useless. It's just not a >> very sociable social network. > > It's been interesting reading the replies. These discussions about LinkedIn > happen from time to time; in another group last year full of electronics and > other engineers, (amateur radio topics and UK subscribers mainly) all that > anyone seemed to get were requests to join. No one seemed to get more from > it than that. I've lost count of the (rejected) requests to join I've had > over the years, but I assume someone here in the UK has found it of benefit? > Do these social networks have an expiry date and people move to the next > fashionable version? > > Malcolm > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
