At this point LI is beyond saving but a serious competitor would have to be heavily moderated to stay clean which we all know won't happen.
It definitely is not. It probably has the most job listings for most markets, but the experience of looking for a job on LinkedIn is appalling. They recently killed the resume builder, which makes me think that job searching/hiring is a side feature of LinkedIn.
And basically if you don't open it for a few days it will send you some email to remind you it exists.
They decided to keep people on it a-la facebook, rather than stick to what's supposed to do
I opened it up and the "Message" turned out to be an advert for linkedIn premium.
Linkedin app is the last thing i am letting anywhere near my phone.
I was also annoyed by this, but I’ve managed to get it to be pretty quite now.
Social media is and always has been a mirror of the real world. Today's dominant real-world culture consists of virtue signaling, vague pseudo-philosophy, toxic positivity, and a hyper-focus on group identity. You can see this every time you read the news, but you can also hear it when you just talk to random people.
The trend towards that culture started a few years before social media became a thing. I can't even imagine having a conversation with a friend anymore the way I used to in the 1990s and early 2000s. Everything I see online, I recognize from real-world interactions. Those who think social media has "corrupted" society are barking up the wrong tree.
I do wonder what you actually mean by this.
> Those who think social media has "corrupted" society are barking up the wrong tree.
There is clear, evidenced research around social media's negative effect on society.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00127-020-01906-9
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/engl_176/2/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364393/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051241269305
etc.
Spoke to an old friend on the phone recently, for the first time in 10 years or so. Within a few minutes of the conversation, he had used phrases like "As a father..." and "I cannot stand by while..."
It was as if he were speaking to an audience, rather than to me. I was glad when the call ended.
They hide anything my actual friends do, and just show some rage inducing video for the sake of keeping me there. It doesn't happen by mistake.
Its some people who do this, and these people absolutely dominate the internet world, but not the real world.
I guess it wouldn't be technically challenging to create a platform for this, the problem would be to bring the right users and as you say, moderate the content to avoid what it has become today.
Show your certificates? Amazing!
Selfie with some half-assed inspirational "leader" quote? No!
Before MS bought them, it was great. Now it's just a stupid Facebook clone with pathetic spam posts of people that are dying inside because they haven't found a job but oh my how much that have make them growth.
And now apparently it also has those vertical 10 second tiktoks like video "stories" or whatever they are called
Yes! It's ridiculous even in real life people self-censoring words what are they expecting to happen if they say kill, suicide, penis, even apparently the word thick?
But yes TikTok-ification has crept into pretty much all social media and as I mentioned for some in real life speech.
