It may suck, but if it can help me find a job when I'm out of work ... it is at minimum in the 'useful' category. -Andy On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Justin Kremer <justin.kremer at gmail.com>wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Joel Dick <joel_cd at yahoo.com> wrote: > > Dare I ask why people don't like Linkedin? Just wondering, as a few > people have recommended that I sign up there, that it's good for job > networking. > > It claims to give you a "network of trust" or some other word for > trustworthy businesspeople you know, but it is mostly just a > popularity contest like Facebook for business people who are too good > for Facebook. People add contacts that they've never met in person > regularly, defeating any semblance of this network of trust that > Linkedin is supposed to provide. > And when you sign up, it asks you for your e-mail password so that it > can try to spam everyone in your contacts, which would be how that > e-mail got sent to this mailing list. > I know for a fact that I have a whole lot of people in my e-mail > contact list who I would not consider to be someone I trust, not > necessarily because the person is not trustworthy, but because I don't > know them well enough to vouch for them. > - Justin > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100114/05d68cbc/attachment.htm