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
>
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