Wait, has LinkedIn become a dating app?
www.businessinsider.com
People are mixing business with pleasure on the career networking site. What could possibly go wrong?
    • Gloria@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      8 months ago
      • Don‘t mix money with honey

      -Don‘t mix spreadsheets with bedsheets

      But then again, workplaces are still the top places were ( later married) couples have met on average.

  • schmorp@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    8 months ago

    LinkedIn just isn’t for Jobs Anymore. It’s Now a Pile of Trash.

    Ads about pushing your career, then more ads about how to create a better work life balance. And everybody seems to be a coach who tries to push their courses about the above mentioned topics. Thanks but I’ll pass.

  • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    LinkedIn is trash, it’s a glorified resume where narcissists go to brag about themselves.

    Adding a dating feature is only going to benefit two groups of people: the ones who have the highest paying jobs, and people who are looking to be with someone for their money. For everyone else, this is just going to make LinkedIn more repulsive than it already was.

    Edit - I’m lazy, ignore this and read the article

  • PatFusty@lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 months ago

    As i tell everyone else, LinkdIn is a glorified facebook for boomers. The only time i will ever update my profile is if I am looking for a job.

  • restingboredface@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I used to browse linkedin all the time, and found that my contacts shared interesting articles and links that related to my job. I got 2 jobs from listing shared by my network that I’d never have found otherwise.

    But it’s been years since that time, and now it is a cesspool of shameless fake humble bragging and totally non-work appropriate content. I’ve been hit on multiple times with men trying to get me to chat with them about really personal stuff in DMs.

    I’m job hunting now, and it’s one of my main methods for finding opportunities but otherwise I wouldn’t log on at all.

    • Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I don’t use it, but I know companies checkout my profile whenever I apply so I made my profile look really good, added a ton of skills and completed a bunch of the certification test things.

      Up until recently when jobs in my industry dried up, I would get recruiters contacting me weekly at a minimum. I’ve never actually used it as a social media platform, and I don’t understand why people do tbh.

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Right, so I’ve lived my whole life constantly being told that I can’t read social cues and that everyone else has this magical ability to understand subtext and all that. Which makes this article so confusing to me because it reads like the author is so oblivious to how people actually work.

    The article can be summed up as basically:

    • Turns out, people can find love by talking to each other and don’t need specially designed apps.
    • But it can’t happen organically, you need to use some app to do so and look out specifically for love. Obviously.
    • Relationships are entirely transactional and are based on your partner’s academic and business performance.

    All with this creepy undertone that sexual harassment should be delegated to a footnote and subject to a cost-benefit analysis rather than, you know, avoided entirely.