LinkedIn Utility Debate

LinkedIn does it, why shouldn't they? LI is a successful, IPO'ed company, surely they wouldn't be doing anything detrimental.

LinkedIn, unlike other social networks is actually useful

LinkedIn is just a list of my previous jobs that allows recruiters to spam me with job offers. Completely disabled the notifications and was considering deleting the whole thing

does anyone actually interact on LinkedIn? I thought it was just a platform for recruitment spam

You do not need to use LinkedIn. They are a scammy, spammy company that was so bad that getting acquired by Microsoft made them better, not worse.

Why don't you want to use LinkedIn? It's a low effort tool to get used to.

Linkedin is really terrible.You are constantly spamed by career 'advices', recruiters, life coaches and people bragging about their work-related achievements... Its really difficult to find any interesting content there. I tend to spend no more than 10 seconds on it, unless I need to respond to a (recruiter) message. Feels like the only people getting anything out of Linkedin are those who are new to their respective fields, and need to network a bit and maybe land a new job. Otherw

I find linkedin is the most useful social network I'm a part of, even though I rarely visit it. I have made many professional connections, and linkedin aggregates them nicely and I find the periodic emails of people getting new jobs or new titles to be very interesting. I guess I am not as annoyed about the shady tactics as you are, I just ignore them.So I'm sorry that you don't like the site, but I politely decline your recommendation to delete my account.

What is so negative about LinkedIn?

My use case for having a Linkedin account is generally keeping track of where people I've worked with in the past are now, and checking out companies/people before I speak to them about something.TBH I get the recruiter spam that I'm sure most get, but it's easily ignored, and not really that invasive.