LinkedIn losing credibility?
I can't help but to notice that more and more people on LinkedIn are posting content that does not belong on there such as posting pictures of their kids or getting engaged (yes I've seen this). To me, this devalues LinkedIn and groups it in with the rest of the social media/networking websites (not entirely) unfortunately which could make it hard for people to reach out to professionals in their industry trying to network for jobs if they aren't checking LinkedIn as much.
It seems like before LinkedIn was just strictly business professionals and less crap like vacation pictures and what not that belong on Facebook.
Could there be a way to filter stuff like this out? Hoping so.
You're not the target for LinkedIn. By joining LinkedIn, you're providing them with a free userbase, which they can then "sell" to recruiters and headhunters. As long as recruiters and headhunters are willing to pay, which I bet they will, LinkedIn stays around.
This is the correct answer. Linkedin is the best professional database in the world and well worth the money if you're in sales/recruiting/marketing.
True...except they also need to give a reason for the users to stick around...so if they don't figure out how to filter this content more and more users will leave. Thus the appeal to recruiters will soften.
And quite frankly...indeed.com resume search is a better search tool (IMHO) for recruiters. Heeps of formatted resumes with decent search functionality.
I disagree. LinkedIn costs nothing and requires no effort to keep. If Facebook-type pictures start flooding LinkedIn, it will just result in the majority of users no longer checking LinkedIn every day. Since it requires more effort to delete an account than it does to keep it open, users will keep their accounts.
+1 for sales. I used it so much for prospecting that they now filter my searches until I pay for the sales membership.
I think it's becoming the de facto job search tool as well. They recently changed their layout and it's pretty nice. Plus there are some jobs that you can apply to in maybe 2-3 clicks without having to type all your data in. Not sure where it stacks up against Indeed, but my guess is that it won't be long (if it isn't already) before it overtakes Indeed.
I'm a buyside recruiter, and I'm willing to pay to reach you guys (I actually do pay LinkedIn lots of money...). But it's increasingly becoming useless, as the customized emails I send to professionals get drowned in a mass of I'm-a-SEO-expert-from-this-or-that-country-can-we-do-business-with-you-type emails and connection requests.
Just out of curiosity, how do you know this? Are you assuming that a non-response means the email was drowned out? I am just wondering.
I agree...I haven't seen the kids or engagement photos yet...but linkedin giving me birthday updates through their app is absolutely ridiculous.
Hopefully, with Microsoft buying them, it will change some of these problems.
LOL.
Agree totally. I'd happily pay for a professional linked that is something like a Linkedin/GoBuyside hybrid. Linkedin is still OK, but I find myself unfollowing and hiding an endless stream of content. I have no issue with recruiters reaching out and other sales stuff, but the annoying, inappropriate posts and just junk content is killing the site. Personally, I am on Linkedin because the next best thing hasn't been created. Facebook was like that for me until it finally became too fucking annoying and I deleted it. I can definitely see a day when I do the same with Linkedin.
100% this
This is very interesting TNA. Gosh I should go on WSO more often. The internal search tool and profiles my team built at talentswat (mostly out of frustration about LinkedIn) is slowly becoming such a hybrid. As our network is becoming way too large for us to have a chance to speak with everyone, we're starting to consider moving away from headhunting altogether and instead opening the platform to other recruiters. It's becoming sort of a private club, with very strict membership criteria. While at this time our users can't write to each other and don't have access to the search features used internally by our team, unlocking those search functionalities for all users wouldn't be very difficult.
Obviously we couldn't build all of the features that LinkedIn has (nor would we want to), but our business is going well and we'd be willing to invest non-negligible amounts of money to build something robust enough that our members would be willing to pay for.
What features do you think would provide sufficient enough value for Wall Street professionals to pay for?
Agreed. Linkedin is spammy and completely useless to the vast majority of its users from whom it derives the vast majority of its value.
perfect way to put it. SELL Linkedin
I would have agreed with you a few days ago, but in the last week or so I've gotten several decent job prospects from recruiters contacting me (that said, I have zero interest in leaving my current company, but if I did have interest the last few days have demonstrated that Linkedin still has value).
My thought process is that if the quality of content goes down, people in this industry well stop checking it as much (not marketing, sales or HR) and thus not be as receptive to in mails/ cold mailing for people trying to break into their aspiring job fields.
That's definitely a possibility. But the in-mails are sent directly to our personal emails, so it felt like I was being contacted directly by the recruiters.
I like to call it with my friends as, "StalkedIn."
If only you could see who's viewed your profile on other social media sites...
As was said in the other LinkedIn thread, this is just the natural cycle of a social media platform. You get the early adopters, then the mainstream, then the expansion, then the social decline but user base increase. It really applies to anything that is "cool," such as slang. Early adopters start saying something, then "cool" people do, then everyone does, then your grandma says "bae" or "fleek" or dabs and by then it's already been dead for a year.
Facebook went through a very similar cycle. As everyone knows by now Facebook started at select schools and then grew to requiring a .edu email to create an account. When I got my college email in 2006, the absolute first thing I did was create a facebook, because facebook was simply that cool. Then, facebook expanded to everyone and it started to suck some. Then your grandma and that racist you went to highschool with and your cousin who is really into anime got facebook and both post meme after meme and like stupid after stupid and it all shows up on your timeline. Facebook doesn't care because they are now basically the passport to the internet, but the content on facebook blows dick.
Likewise, LinkedIn used to be just an online resume. It was easier than making a "personal webpage" and everything was all in one place. Then they started letting famous people write articles. Then they started letting PR and Advertising majors and 25 year old "entrepreneurs" write "articles." Now the same idiots who post "If this kid gets 100,000 likes his cancer will go away" posts on facebook post "inspiring" memes on LinkedIn and the shit content rises - but LinkedIn doesn't care because they need those people to help their numbers.
LinkedIn was never "credible" - it just was. It existed. So it didn't lose credibility. The userbase simply expanded, bringing in all of the Beachbody reps, Unemployepreneurs, recruiters who don't even read your profile before spamming your inbox, and and the people who do all of the things in this thread: http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/what-are-your-linkedin-pet-peeves
I still get good articles and company-specific news from it and I still use it before meetings to get some info on a person's background. In that way, it hasn't lost the only two purposes I ever used it for.
lol at grandmas dabbing
Indian kids dabbing like mental patients at the National Spelling Bee
1 like = 1 prayer
1 SB = 1 pray
Totally on point. That being said, I think if your network primarily consists of people in high finance and not random 70-year-olds, etc., your feed will primarily be professional, maybe with a bit of shit content.
I think it's more of a who is on your linkedin.
If you're in high finance/enterprise sales or any industry where your credibility matters and is based on long term connections I wouldn't post anything non professional.
It is absolutely in your best interest to not post anything that would possibly offend anyone.
The occasional family picture might be non professional, but it is by no means bad.
VS Sales Rep at Random Shitty Startup or redneck oil worker Joe where what you post has significantly less of an impact because you don't have the same profile.
The worst is when I see old people all commenting on the picture of an attractive girl saying stuff like "You're so pretty!" and sexual-ish comments.
Look, I get it if you want to hit on hot young women and I'm not here to stop you and I really don't care, but this is absolutely NOT the place for that.
I'm starting the filtering process now of getting rid of people who everyday post nonsensical bs about their next "project".
I 100% share your frustration. Why do I care about someone's "inspirational" meme?
LinkedIn should at least allow premium subscribers to filter out crap.
Has it ever been credible?
Facebook has recently started writing "Good Morning!" to me on my feed. I wouldn't be surprised if Linkedin started doing this too.
How LinkedIn Became a New Pick Up Site (Originally Posted: 07/25/2016)
Do you use LinkedIn to connect with strangers? Even worse.. Do you use LinkedIn to pick up women?
This is what Abigail McAlpine, a consultant from UK, experienced after she posted her profile photo, and some guy tried to hit on her through LinkedIn.
The morale of the story is that there are better and more effective ways out there to hit on women. Just don't use LinkedIn for it...
I've never used it outside of a professional function. With that said, though, when I come across a babe on LinkedIn, I usually think to myself "oh, man, I'd like to have inappropriate office relations with her."
Imagine how desperate one must be to hit on women on LinkedIn.
LinkedIn is going through a prolonged awkward stage, where more and more people are trying to make it Facebook by posting ridiculous shit. Fortunately, if any company can suck the fun out of something it's Microsoft, so maybe LinkedIn is heading back to its buttoned-up roots.
I can confirm that this has happened to me multiple times. Usually the 50+ crowd doing it.
Oh wow - there was a post like Abigail McAlpine's that I saw a while ago that went semi-viral and then turned out to be fake to drive profile views. Can't believe this is actually happening now. Sorry to hear that.
Hey beautiful.
Strangest thing I saw was a contact I had on there who is in the UK, older guy. Out of nowhere I start seeing comments he typed and posts he liked of a profile for a stripper or strip club or something. Comments like "Oh yes I like that" etc. I could see him not being aware that other people can see what he was doing. idiot.
I have been hit on countless times by men on LinkedIn. What makes it mentally disturbing is that most were quite old, over 40 and I'm 23. Although it does crack me up at times, I do feel very disappointed. I was hoping to have a safe platform to network with professionals, especially since I find networking difficult.
Sigh, you'd think common sense would prevail...
She should read a grammar book. That writing was absolutely atrocious.
You should focus on your studies/networking instead of the grammar posted on a social networking website at 8:30am on a Sunday morning.
When your boss emails you using abbreviated words and sentences with missing periods, are you going to care or point it out? No - because you (and more importantly, your boss) have much more important matters to worry about.
That being said, any email sent to your boss should never have spelling errors, etc. But again, it shouldn't matter on WSO.
Brb checking Abigail's pic.
She's a "freelance marketing consultant", whatever that is.
Statistics show that when stalking fails on Facebook, it will DEFINITELY have the same effect on LinkedIn... But really, this happened to my gf all the time and was the reason she removed her picture on LinkedIn. Kind of seems like it puts you out as the opposite of the desired effect of a professional network...
Anyone have good tips on how to properly vet females on LinkedIn?
linkedin is easy, simply view the profile of the professional babe, wait it out for like two days and see if she views you back, then you are in the clear, interest has been established by both parties
just checked, this chic is avg at best...
Old story - and if you are too precious to get yourself out there don't post on linkedIn if you can't ignore the bull shit.
How NOT to use LinkedIn (Originally Posted: 07/18/2016)
As the question of how to successfully use LinkedIn is frequently brought up on this site, I thought it would be relevant to highlight how not to use it.
This does make me think, though; how many times has LinkedIn been used as a match-making service? Unfortunately, I don't think opening with "a/s/l" would work very well.No, but I have used Tinder to try to get an informational after I found out where the girl worked.
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