Okay, I haven't used LinkedIn in a little while and I'm absolutely blown away by how they restricted how many free personalized connection requests I can send and the character limit was once again reduced from 300 characters to 200 characters. Spoiler alert: it's five personalized connection requests in a given month. Like what the actual heck, guys.
Anyone know a better market to connect with folks since LinkedIn has gone downhill?
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Linkedin received too much feedback regarding commercial/sales/random requests . Literally everyone got random requests by hundreds of people each year. They had to do something to stop that. Not every contact on there is useful at all, and there are fake profiles also.
So their solution to that is to paywall a basic feature?? They couldn't just create a verification sequence or at least offer discounts to students/young professionals?
Not to mention, this is punishing every single person on their platform. I'm fine ignoring 100-200 folks a year if it saves me $200+ in subscription fees for this basic thing.
Seems like a lazy fix to me.
I also believe that, without messaging, the whole platform isn't worth it. No way I am paying to send something to someone if I can just google their email address. it's easier.
but yeah, I got at least 30 requests per week from random people, and they weren't startups looking for funding or anything. complete strangers.
gave up my profile entirely.
Yep. Seems like LinkedIn just dropped the ball in not having any guard rails built to prevent this and decided to proceed with a unibomb of making the whole platform boarderline unusable.
I don't want to log in to assimilate to an echo chamber of egotistic individuals preaching absurdly obvious statements as if their sermons of a modern bible. The number of posts I've seen that just advocate for basic work-life balance, or attitude over education fit, or some rehashed opinion of AI is mind-bogglingly high. I put up with it for the simple reason that the platform acted as a way to discover individuals in positions i'd like to learn more about.
Now that that's gone, I may follow suit and just deactive/use my profile significantly less. Seems like they really shot themselves in the foot.
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