[_d3Xt3r_]

I'm surprised people still use LinkedIn, in spite of knowing how scummy they are. I deleted my account long ago, just prior to the time they got sued for spamming people (and even deleting my account didn't stop the invite spam, so I had to block the domain). But every now and then I stumble upon a LinkedIn profile (when I'm looking up people via a Google search or something) and it's always shocking to see how much info people are sharing willingly - from their profile picture, to their entire work history, all the connections they have - all visible without even needing to login. It's basically Facebook-level of personal detail, minus the drunk and embarrassing photos.

I can understand "normies" using LinkedIn because they don't know any better, but it shocks me that even the so-called privacy conscious and techy people like the ones here on HN are actively supporting such a shitty organization - the same people who wouldn't hesitate to criticize Meta for their privacy violations.

[invalidname]

Got lots of jobs and opportunities through there. More than all other channels combined. Without sending out any solicitations or anything. Just posting and having my LinkedIn profile public.

To be fair 96% of the people who contact me aren't relevant. But I still made nice bank on the 4% who were and it just meant answering a message...

[jjav]

> I'm surprised people still use LinkedIn, in spite of knowing how scummy they are.

Linkedin is great, at what it's for. As much as I dislike the "you're holding it wrong" argument, if anyone is posting personal information on linkedin and expecting it to be private, they are doing it wrong. That's not the purpose of linkedin.

> the same people who wouldn't hesitate to criticize Meta for their privacy violations

Certainly. The intent of facebook is to post private information about personal life and share it only with friends. Whenever they violate that trust, there's plenty to criticize.

With linkedin the purpose is to post public professional info with the goal of advertising yourself to the world. There's no privacy violation because the goal was to be public.

[jmye]

What do you think I’m posting on LinkedIn that ought to be private? It’s basically my resume, on a site that allows two-way job searching. I’m unclear why you think “normies”, which should be a highly embarrassing thing to actually say, would use it but “tech” people wouldn’t.

10x engineers who don’t need the networking/recruiter search notwithstanding.

[dopidopHN]

I don’t remember how to find a job without. Do people really use indeed.con and the like ?

Also, this is corporate me. I control every bit of what I wrote there and never actually use the social aspect.

[dorfsmay]

Most potential employers will check your LinkedIn profile before even talking to you.

[jehb]

In my experience as a hiring manager, I will do a web search. If the LinkedIn result is what I find first that I'm sure is you, I'll click that, but if you have a personal homepage, I'd actually probably rather see that. YMMV, of course.