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LinkedIn is as bleak of a social networking site I can imagine (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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The idea of a social network website that solely meant for job seeker is not inherently a bad thing. In fact, I would imagine if done properly it would be a worthwhile tool for helping people find jobs or to find workers. However, because of the modern software as a service/big data surveillance capitalism it has become a carnival of caricatures. It is really everything wrong with the modern workplace, both big and small.

the “content” on the site has zero value, it’s literally content in the sense that it’s something there to occupy space. The websites core value almost is almost nonexistent at this point. Also the content that is there is unhinged. And I would imagine the problem has only supercharged with the advent of generative AI.

It sucks that regular people can’t just log onto a website to find job openings and or connect with other people in their industry in a normal human like way. It also really sucks that the site has sort of become the default job board. There are other sites and weird third-party applications/platforms but in general LinkedIn and it’s general mentality is the norm for looking for a job.

It’s so fuckin’ lame.

In this thread be big mad with me.

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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah, but I also don't see how it could be anything other than the hive of scum and villainy that it is. People are going to go on there and publicly suck their company/immediate supervisor off because it's not how you know who you blow, it's how you blow who you know. People are going to be asked by their boss to simp for their business. People are going to curate their profile to try and put on a good face. Tbth, when I've been involved in the interview process, a mostly blank LinkedIn wasn't much worse off than a busy, highly curated one; though a bad LinkedIn profile would hurt a candidate. When I say bad, I mean that I think of LinkedIn as a snapshot of what someone is like to work with; if your feed is full of you being needlessly contentious on other people's posts, that suggests to me that that's how it'll be to work with you; if your feed is full of religious proselytizing and Facebooky political junk, then that doesn't inspire a lot of optimism for how it'll be to work with you, etc. Whereas I tend to dismiss a highly curated LinkedIn as basically fake bullshit anyway.

So for my part, LinkedIn is more of an opportunity for people to self-report than anything.