[geeks] LinkedIn is off the rails

[Stefan Molnar]

Plenty.

I was on Linkedin for a number of years.   I posted my company and title. 
Every day I would get sales calls, and staffing companies, service 
providers, you name it.   It occured to me what is the value in Linkedin. 
It was a gold mine for sales people.  People would post their names, 
companies, titles, etc.  Any sales droid would look for the companies in 
their reigon, and have at it.   They knew that some list they bought would 
have stale data.  But if people are updating their employment even major 
projects they are working on makes it pure money.  Knowing who are 
decision makers weeds out wasted calls.  So I killed my Linkedin account.
Within a week the sales calls dropped off.  Never again will I join 
Linkedin to have the pleasure of being bombarded by cold calls, invites to 
Webinars, or some other lame "cloud" offering.




On Fri, 25 Oct 2013, Nick B wrote:

> How stupid do they think we are?  Facebook.
> Nick
> On Oct 25, 2013 5:54 PM, "Phil Stracchino" <phils at caerllewys.net> wrote:
>
>> On 10/25/13 17:27, Sandwich Maker wrote:
>>> " From: Rick Hamell <hamellr at gmail.com>
>>> "
>>> " Wow.... I'm a huge linkedin user, but this is just beyond acceptable.
>>> "
>>> " On 10/25/13 1:58 PM, Nathan Raymond wrote:
>>> " > I find this absolutely nuts:
>>> " >
>>> " > http://www.bishopfox.com/blog/2013/10/linkedin-intro/
>>>
>>>     Don't make the mistake of thinking you're [the] customer, you're
>>>     not - you're the product.
>>>       - Bruce Schneier
>>>
>>> all social media sites care for you the same way slaughterhouses care
>>> for cattle.
>>
>> Well. yeah, but how stupid do they really think we are?
>>
>> This is LinkedIn's Sony rootkit.
>>
>>
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>>   phils at caerllewys.net
>>   phil at co.ordinate.org
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