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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 17:22:39 UTC Bob Jonkman I wouldn't be on LinkedIn at all, but everyone else seems to think it's important, and as a hungry contractor I can't afford to pass up any opportunities no matter how much it contradicts my own desire to avoid the commercial surveillance apparatus. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 17:12:12 UTC Bob Jonkman LinkedIn is getting sneakier in how they recommend contacts. Today I clicked on "Add to Network(5)" and improved LinkedIn's social graph of me because I was misled into thinking those contacts had requested a connection. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 17:57:56 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @bobjonkman Keep track of where useful leads come from. You may find (as I did years ago) that #LinkedIn is better called #LockedOut, that the site is a dismal failure at its stated purpose. -
Pabo (pabo@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2018 19:32:22 UTC Pabo @bobjonkman
Couldn't agree more with @lnxw48a1 . All this site has to do is share my resume and any other data I provided that might interest potential employers.Instead, it's hiding increasingly more info behind an authentication wall.[1]
And while that sounds bad and weird, but does have some merit (deny anonymous scraping by competitors), hiding one's own contacts [2] is just plain greedy (and obviously non-viable in the long run).
[1] https://petermolnar.net/linkedin-public-settings-ignored/
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