Nah, it is actually mostly people who work, talking about work. It is awash with recruiters, which is legit about 90% of my inbox on there.
That said, it is great for keeping in touch with old colleagues and Iāve legit had jobs fall out of the sky from it, including this one, so perhaps I am not quite ready for its destruction.
Itās a bit late to look in the Yellow Pages now, Barry. They abandoned it in 2019.
Some of us dont get Thursdays Echo anymore.
and it is shite. I set up an account in 2012 for about 2 years after that it laid dormant until quarantine when you suddenly find lots of time on your hands so I logged in again since then been getting shit from body shops wanting to sell my body at a price to me and people I used to work with looking for jobs wanting references. They are not going to get them.
Hmm, sort of fits in hereā¦
Actually, the more I think about it the more I think Black Mirror was very prescientā¦
I guess this kind of fits in here too, though itās not purely about social media. Itās pretty long but well worth reading I think.
Dunno about anyone else, but I tend to observe the norms of social media. Facebook for friends, Twitter for news and business for LinkedIn.
There are some people really taking the piss out of the latter. Without wanting to sound callous, saw someone post the last text interaction he had with his son before his son took his own life.
Itās fucking tragic but itās too much information for LinkedIn and I donāt like the potential conflicts of interest. This post has got 79K likes. At what point does grief become a way to build you professional social media profile?
Linkedin is a waste of time - it is infested with the likes of me, who use it as a cv database. Not in your network? doesnt matter, we pay for access to the entire database irrespective of your connections - you cannot hide. We even have browser addins that will hunt out your emails and phone numbers - both business and personal.
It is the only place on the web where you can post your CV and your boss wonāt ask questions
As for posting personal shit on there or fucking memes - do one
I went for a job interview a while back.
Asked them what their marketing strategy was & they said LinkedIn cold calls.
No content creation, no white papers, no testimonials, nothing.
No wonder theyāve had 3 people in that job in 2.5 years tbh.
It is a useful tool but cold calls for a niche outsourcing company?
I have (gulp) done some LinkedIn memes. But theyāre linked to work.
100% agree - the amount of shit about cancer and death on there, for someone like me who suffers from anxiety, makes it a tough read, and I genuinely use it for networking, helping those in my network with jobs, or in future hope they can help me.
Its a useful tool if used correctly.
Very rarely use FB, and Twitter is like the fucking Wild West nowadays.
Elon is doing his best to destroy X
Removing the ability to block posts.
FFS my feed is full of training courses for IATA - Careers in Aviation, Coding Companies, AI Job recruitment in Spain and Crypto. - well targetted that.
But not removing Nazi posts underneath Auschwitz?
That was becoming time to go.
But this one came very close to being the game changer that finally killed him off.
Oh FFS the twat has fvcked around with the Twitter feed visuals again
Now get a double feed - fvck off it was bad enough as it was
This has become topical with the impending end of Tik Tok in the US
Should we follow suit and ban it?
Should we bin off the others?
Should we make the owners liable for the content they publish?
Should the list include glorified WhatsApp football sites?
You could always go back to SaintsWeb (is that still a thing??)
Sure is
Civil? Times have changedā¦
Lend us a fiver?