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0 pointsprepend6y ago0 comments

This is curious to me as I’m not sure the benefit from deleting. If author stated some negative value, then that would make sense, but he doesn’t call out any real downsides that can’t be trivially mitigated.

I’ve found LinkedIn useful for learning about where previous colleagues are now working. I’ve also found it useful as a quick way to learn about people’s past experiences that might be relevant to the issue at hand.

I have turned off all notifications and only visit it when I need something. That is normally to add a contact to my Rolodex or to look someone up I’m meeting with.

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paulgb6y ago

> This is curious to me as I’m not sure the benefit from deleting.

The way I looked at it when I deleted my account is that having LinkedIn means having another inbox that attracts a disproportionate amount of crap. It got to the point where I turned off notifications and treated my inbox like a spam folder. By deleting my profile, people who actually do have something to tell me aren't under the false impression that they can contact me on LinkedIn, and people that just want to spam me generally don't make the effort to track down my email (which I make pretty easy to do).

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