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SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: shmokes on July 09, 2012, 10:25:38 am ---.....with whom I never had any meaningful connection (like high school classmates I never talked to).

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Strangely enough, this appears to be the bulk of my "friends" on FB. Well, that and my wifes friends. The number of people I would consider friends is marginally small and, now that I'm older and wiser, discovered they're such useless ---punks--- that I can't figure out why I bothered to send them F-requests anyways. FB's real value to me was locating tough to find relatives.

In any case, the whole friends/connections process mystifies me.  I made a comment recently offending someone so they "de-friended" me, to which I wrote how pathetic that person was and my friend count suddenly jumped. WTH?

LinkedIn seems to have limited usefullness as well, like Shmokes mentioned, quite a number of people don't keep their profiles updated. Of course, I'm one of those people so I guess I shouldn't complain.

drventure:

--- Quote from: shmokes on July 09, 2012, 12:58:29 pm ---For what it's worth, it doesn't seem to me that LinkedIn does benefit anyone, lol.

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 :)

Good point. I was probably being overly generous with that comment. Can't say I've really ever benefited from LinkedIn either, though I have gotten a fair number of recruiter and HR inquiries through there (but far more through Dice).

rmusick:

--- Quote ---I have gotten a fair number of recruiter and HR inquiries through
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You know come to think of it, when I do get hit up by recruiters, they ask for my resume and I never hear from the again!..
Maybe everyone is right LinkedIn is useless,  But you got to have hope right?

drventure:
I suspect there's a fair number of resume trolls on LinkedIn. I noticed that same thing for a while.

I basically stopped sending resumes to people contacting me until they sent info on the position they were recruiting for and I could verify that it at least seemed legit.

Vigo:
I won't touch Linkedin anymore. I have a fake lurker account so I can do things like validate who the person is that I am going to interview with for a position. I want to know if I am interviewing with a recruiter, dept director, or would-be direct supervisor, and maybe see if they know anyone that I know. That is about the best use for it.

I initially started a linkedin account years ago before I even heard of it. I was just recommended to do so. I didn't realize I was effectively making my resume public. Meh, that's not for me. I give people my info on my terms.

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