On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:06:32AM -0500, 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.
I joined LinkedIn something like 15 years ago, back when it was a useful place to find people in the Software Engineering field. It helped me to keep track of people I had worked with, and even to track down several folks I'd lost contact with (people I worked with in the '80s). In those days it provided a useful service, without the endless flood of emails about how many times somebody has viwed yor profile, or the "requests to join your professional network" from people you've never heard of (with, I note, one or two from names I recognise from here). The aggravation hasn't quite got to the point where I'm prepared to delete my account, but I'm beginning to lean that way ... -- 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.
