Ever wondered how popular you are on LinkedIn? Do some of your connections get more views than you? In an effort to boost engagement and encourage polished profiles, LinkedIn will now include a tool called How You Rank. This new feature will show users the most-viewed profiles among one's company and greater network.
Additionally, this tool will make suggestions as to how one can become more "LinkedIn popular". With new features like this, many are concerned that LinkedIn is drifting away from its business professional platform and headed in the direction of many other popular social media sites. They fear that adding such a tool will make LinkedIn seem more like a popularity contest of who can get the most views rather than a site for networking and fostering business relationships as it was intended.
What do you think about this? Is LinkedIn staying true to its professional nature or is it drifting towards the likes of Facebook, Twitter, etc.?
Last year they sent an email saying if you were in the top 1% or 5% of viewed profiles. I guess they are just expanding that into an ongoing rank.
Perhaps they are trying to innovate but I believe they are still within the professional boundary.
All my connections that are ranked highly are either recruiters or advertise their own businesses a lot. No surprise there, seems pretty useless to everyone else.
Eh, not sure about this. These "rankings" are generally meaningless after people with too much free time figure out the algorithm and start gaming the system. I'm not convinced that this feature is necessary.
For most people the overall ranking is probably useless. In my industry, I'd much rather have a smaller number of quality connections than 1,000 random profile views.
I recently saw the ranking thing and like keyboardcat said, they highly ranked ones are recruiters or their names were recently in the news.
LinkedIn is a joke
LinkedIn is a great tool no doubt about it. But I really dont know anybody that actually cares about LinkedIn profile views. Im sure recruiters are at the top of every list.
I agree some people, like recruiters, are bound to get the most page views. But I do think that this feature is somewhat unnecessary as the purpose of linkedin is to build and strengthen your professional network. No should focus on getting more views than their connections and I think linkedin missed their aim with this tool.
not important at all. LI is used not for getting profile views.
LinkedIn is just Facebook with a tie.
couldn't have said it better myself
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