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0 pointsrezmason6y ago0 comments

I completely disagree— reading this blog post, I come away with the sense that the author values genuine representation of who they are, and is frustrated with social networks' inadequacies in that regard. To their point, I doubt I'd be able to glean this kind of thing from anyone's LinkedIn profile.

Speaking personally, the activity you're describing sounds like a major time sink, and doesn't align with the LinkedIn experience of anyone I know.

It shouldn't fall on the shoulders of a social network's users to learn how to optimize their representation on that one website.

To your credit, maybe you're getting contacted by well-off companies because they admire the effort and techniques you're using to boost your profile. If so, having everyone pour the same kind of effort into it would arguably help no one stand out, and only "add value" to the platform itself.

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game_the0ry6y ago

> Speaking personally, the activity you're describing sounds like a major time sink, and doesn't align with the LinkedIn experience of anyone I know.

Speaking personally, I spent much less time creating and updating my LI than creating and updating my resume in order to target specific jobs.

> It shouldn't fall on the shoulders of a social network's users to learn how to optimize their representation on that one website.

Agreed, but LI gives me the option to do so, and that is exactly what I do.

> To your credit, maybe you're getting contacted by well-off companies because they admire the effort and techniques you're using to boost your profile. If so, having everyone pour the same kind of effort into it would arguably help no one stand out, and only "add value" to the platform itself.

It wasn't much effort on my part.

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