Another outstanding quote from qmacro (an rwxrob.tv regular). I really
can’t improve on it other than to say, get the fuck off of it and invest
that time building your portfolio and presence on GitHub instead.
Linkedin is perhaps the biggest scam masquerading as a tool I’ve ever encountered, and I used to promote it to people. Never again.
Seriously, why the fuck did I waste all that meticulously crafting and maintaining my LinkedIn profile only to realize they have a full integration API that only the paid corporations can use. At Linkedin we are the Soylent Green fed to their actual customers. I don’t want anything to do with it. It took me a fucking week to get all my data out of it and into a nice CV that I can autogenerate different resumes and sites from, that includes things like recommendations, nice comments, and referrals from other.
I’m still so mad I fell for that shit. They even try to lock you into it with all your previous work contacts on it instead of creating actual relationship connections with email and such. They are as fucking evil as Facebook, if not worse, because they are trying to monopolize and manipulate your career life without any consideration for what you want. If they actually gave a shit they would let everyone have full access to their API. The really don’t care about anything but sucking your soul to feed to the people that pay them the highest to find you. No wonder so many bad recruiters and companies use it. They are evil by association.
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