It seems to me that LinkedIn sucks.
Is anybody actually making good use of it (besides salesmen). I would be interested in knowing.
I think I most likely wasted my time getting set up on it over the weekend (it was under my real name so don’t go looking for purpleslog).
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I find LinkedIn quite useful for keeping up on who’s who, who’s doing what, an who’s working for who.
I’m linked to a lot of infosec professionals, including many in Milwaukee.
Send me an invite and we’ll connect.
Did you go to RSA?
Well, I beg to differ
I’m Mario, the community guy at LinkedIn. There are many ways that LinkedIn can help you, and I thought I’ll draw attention to some of our recent blog posts that shows you how professionals are benefiting from LinkedIn http://blog.linkedin.com/blog/2008/04/linkedin-users.html
Let me know if you’ve any questions. Feel free to follow me on twitter (id: mariosundar).
You look like such a fag.
That is an absolutely stupid and worthless comment.
Bryan that was uncalled for. Don’t be a jerk.
Well, the scale and the scope seem to be working at cross purposes.
Clint:
“I find LinkedIn quite useful for keeping up on who’s who, who’s doing what, an who’s working for who.”
Ok. Maybe I am too new to it.
“I’m linked to a lot of infosec professionals, including many in Milwaukee.”
I saw many of them there.
“Send me an invite and we’ll connect.”
Well, that would give away my identity. I don’t want future employers to be able to google my blogging and other on-line activities. So, I maybe at some time in the future. Maybe after the next time we see each other face to face.
“Did you go to RSA?”
No. I wished I had.
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Mario:
Thanks for the link. I will spend a little more time over the next weeks trying it out.
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Steve:
Yeah, that was what I was thinking.
Yep, LinkedIn does suck. It’s done absolutely nothing for everyone I’ve talked to that works in the Silicon Valley area. Another useless website – my
business group (about 50+ people) have already dumped their profiles and moved on!
I am most likely going to be able to give it a good test drive soon – the end is near on my current contract. I don’t like that I may be contractless/jobless sometime in Q1 of 2009.
So this is how we found out that LinkedIn doesn’t know what they’re doing.
When we joined, we thought it’s for networking, right? Simple enough. After getting invitations from people we didn’t know and also inviting people we didn’t know, our accounts were placed on block! They actually “force” you to sign an agreement online to not send invitations to people you don’t know!
Excuse me? Is this a joke? The whole point of LinkedIn is to network and expand your network! How can you do that if you only contact the people you already know? What a bunch of morons. They don’t even know what their company is about.
If I just want to network with people I already know, then it’s not really networking, is it? I already have all the e-mails and phone numbers of the people I know, why does anyone need linkedin for people they already know?
LinkedIn really needs to figure out what they stand for, because as of now, they’re completely confused and they confuse their customers too. They want to stand for something, which is to allow people to network, yet they block almost everyone who contacts snobs who don’t want to accept invites.
Here’s a clue LinkedIn, perhaps you should have a better system of telling those snobs to set up their account in a way that only people who know their e-mail addresses can send them invites and “require it” for those people, instead of punishing customers who are actually there to network!
LinkedIn is a joke. It’s definitely not for networking. LinkedIn doesn’t know the meaning of networking. It’s another facebook. It only pretends to be for professionals.
Two Schools of Thought When It Comes To Networking: Start with who you know and who your network knows or try to connect with “cold contacts” based on group memberships. LinkedIn as an element of both types of networking.
First, I will never pay to send invitations to connect with people I’ve never met before. I do not like that hit or miss strategy. I do however think that there should be a limit has to how many invites you can send a month so that you have to pick and choose who you want to connect with (There’s no way I could ever respond to X number of invites without becoming overwhelmed or turned off at sometime -personally).
I can only connect with so many people!
It’s not a numbers game for me. It’s about quality relationships and I don’t want to divide my time too thin and not be able to follow-up.
I like LinkedIn. I think it has potential, but requires one to be open minded and disciplined.
I was searching for tags related to my high school and was surprised to see private profiles without names. Wtf? How are you supposed to add someone with just their title?
Perplexed by this usually simple and routine method, I wrote customer service and they said you have to send them a request or email and I was thinking how stupid if you don’t even know who they are yet. At least if you know their name, it makes sense to email them saying something like “hey, we graduated at the same time…”.
I didn’t get much further than that, I figured if something that easy was so cumbersome, its not worthwhile. I’ll look at Facebook which seems to be the middle ground between Myspace and nothing (can’t say LinkedIn).
Get a clue.
I think it’s initial purpose was good, but like anything it can be misused. Being “connected” should mean that you know the person and their character to some degree, and may even want to recommend them. However, based on my experiences with getting invites from people I don’t know, and people asking me to recommend them, it just seems to be a numbers game now.
I thik you should be able to connect with anyone. You should at least be allowed to send an invite, and a quick hello message and it’d be up to the user to reply back or accept the invitation. Not allowing you to be able to make new connections with new people is just stupid in my opinion. How are we supposed to get ahead when we dont know people and it wont let us meet anyone new
You nailed it.
I’ve pretty much abandoned my LinkedIn profile. I should delete it.
I’m still waiting on a Purpleslog profile on Facebook.
Heh…it is not forgotten, I have just been procrastinating.
It doesnt make sense to me. Linkedin is supposed to be a networking website. But how can you network if you don’t meet new people? Its so stuipd not to allow people to invite new people you dont know or someone you find when researching a field you are interested in. It should be more of a site where you can find people in your field and connect with them. Rather than only people you know. I really wish they’d change that rule and allow people to email and invite people you dont know.
I agree .
I think it more of way for a new type of spam to be sent out.
It is also an interesting way to do recon on corporations.