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  It's a good tool for recruiters, therefore I use it. Otherwise my LinkedIn would be in shambles
context: It's fine for it's purposes as I understand it. Recruiters certainly use it for good reasons, I've found it useful as a job board.
  I wouldn't want to use it for social purposes. >
  
  I think that the worst part of LinkedIn is that there's lots of similar virtue signaling as seen on other social media platforms, but it's even cringier when people are doing that stuff for their careers. >
  
  I've looked at it as Facebook for Millenial Business Professionals...because their parents took over Facebook.
  Hey there...those are some great titles you got going on.  Want to...collaborate? >
  
  not unpopular at all.. >
  
  you are complaining about the user-friendliness of the site and that completely forgets how unappealing the site is from top to bottom.
  first of all, linkedin started off as a scam website. it was one of those "who's who" books they tried to sell you on in the '70s. linkedin had a lot of fraudulent advertising tactics. for example, they used to send me emails that looked like they were from my friend. the "from" address was masked to mimic my friend's email address, and then the message said something like "Hey you should check out this awesome website I just joined. Here is the link!" and it was even SIGNED in my friend's name. it was a robo-email from linked in. i told my friend about it, he was like "eh who cares" fucking really? you're cool with some website assuming your identity and writing emails on your behalf?
  linkedin was like buzzfeed. nobody took it seriously until all the sudden one day people were like "you know what? i am going to start getting my news from a website known for top-10 lists about buffy the vampire slayer" >
  
  Is a terrible site and I’ve never been able to find a use for it. It’s like, “we’re all about business here… oh wait it’s your birthday let’s inundate you with pointless happy birthday messages like we’re in a school playground”.