<story><title>LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2023/10/16/1206158638/linkedin-layoffs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s extremely frustrating, because in 2023 you&amp;#x27;re sort of expected to have a linkedin (some job applications even require it!), but people have started treating it like the next FaceBook.  From 2020-2022 I saw a lot of COVID conspiracy theories and political memes being posted, and I wanted to respond to them, but since LinkedIn is basically a resume, I withheld responding, for the same reason that I don&amp;#x27;t put my voting history directly on my resume.&lt;p&gt;Though honestly the worst part is the &amp;quot;inspiration porn&amp;quot; that people post on there all the time, nearly all of which reduce to &amp;quot;the job market is tough, but don&amp;#x27;t give up because it gets easy!!!&amp;quot;. When you point out that it, in fact, does not ever get &amp;quot;easy&amp;quot; to wake up to 30 rejection emails every morning, they either try and sell you on some meditation routine, tell you that you have a bad attitude, or just block you.&lt;p&gt;Honestly, it really is the absolute worst platform that I am stuck using.  There are worse websites, obviously, but no one is forcing me to go to 4chan or The Daily Stormer every day.</text></item><item><author>codeTired</author><text>Has anyone else noticed that LinkedIn is turning into a shitty social media platform? Memes and videos are now being posted.&lt;p&gt;I used to get decent use from it but stopped updating my profile because the site is cancer. Full of self patting on the back and people adding me to “grow their network”. Recruiters contacting me with “perfect fit” position in languages not on my profile.&lt;p&gt;Can someone please develop hacker news type basic site but for jobs? No memes, no dark patterns, no likes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>88913527</author><text>You can have a LinkedIn profile but not use the feed-- I don&amp;#x27;t see how that&amp;#x27;s necessarily frustrating. Make a profile, provide the link on job applications. Occasionally edit your profile so it&amp;#x27;s up to date. Then, don&amp;#x27;t use it. Simple enough.</text></comment>
<story><title>LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2023/10/16/1206158638/linkedin-layoffs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s extremely frustrating, because in 2023 you&amp;#x27;re sort of expected to have a linkedin (some job applications even require it!), but people have started treating it like the next FaceBook.  From 2020-2022 I saw a lot of COVID conspiracy theories and political memes being posted, and I wanted to respond to them, but since LinkedIn is basically a resume, I withheld responding, for the same reason that I don&amp;#x27;t put my voting history directly on my resume.&lt;p&gt;Though honestly the worst part is the &amp;quot;inspiration porn&amp;quot; that people post on there all the time, nearly all of which reduce to &amp;quot;the job market is tough, but don&amp;#x27;t give up because it gets easy!!!&amp;quot;. When you point out that it, in fact, does not ever get &amp;quot;easy&amp;quot; to wake up to 30 rejection emails every morning, they either try and sell you on some meditation routine, tell you that you have a bad attitude, or just block you.&lt;p&gt;Honestly, it really is the absolute worst platform that I am stuck using.  There are worse websites, obviously, but no one is forcing me to go to 4chan or The Daily Stormer every day.</text></item><item><author>codeTired</author><text>Has anyone else noticed that LinkedIn is turning into a shitty social media platform? Memes and videos are now being posted.&lt;p&gt;I used to get decent use from it but stopped updating my profile because the site is cancer. Full of self patting on the back and people adding me to “grow their network”. Recruiters contacting me with “perfect fit” position in languages not on my profile.&lt;p&gt;Can someone please develop hacker news type basic site but for jobs? No memes, no dark patterns, no likes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mauliknshah</author><text>Further to that, my feed have been filled with Certification posts. Folks would boast about their 3 hour Certification courses with long cringe posts! And LinkedIn would not stop it, because they need to sell LinkedIn Learning!</text></comment>