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  Intro for iphone being dropped by LinkedIn 505 Meat Eater <meateat@gmail.com> - 2014-02-08 07:57 +0000
    Re: Intro for iphone being dropped by LinkedIn Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-08 14:36 -0800
      Re: Intro for iphone being dropped by LinkedIn Lance Orner <lance@orner.invalid.net> - 2014-02-09 03:30 +0000
      Re: Intro for iphone being dropped by LinkedIn Koen Lefever <koen.lefever@gmail.com> - 2014-02-09 14:46 -0800
      Re: Intro for iphone being dropped by LinkedIn Adrian C <email@here.invalid> - 2014-02-28 10:27 +0000
        Re: Intro for iphone being dropped by LinkedIn RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-28 15:47 +0000
          Re: Intro for iphone being dropped by LinkedIn Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-01 11:32 +0100

#110 — Intro for iphone being dropped by LinkedIn

Hacker News linked to this article this morning:

https://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/47196/ft/eng
and ... just for /. nostalgia:  "from the i-never-liked-it-anyway 
department"

It looks like they're dropping Intro as a messaging app for the iphone, 
but with no explanation.  No worries, we can provide a few explanations:

1. it was invasive
2. people hated it
3. maybe no one used it
4. someone probably threatened to sue their pants off
5. ???

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#129

On 2014-02-08 07:57:27 +0000, 505 Meat Eater said:

> Hacker News linked to this article this morning:
> 
> https://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/47196/ft/eng
> and ... just for /. nostalgia:  "from the i-never-liked-it-anyway
> department"
> 
> It looks like they're dropping Intro as a messaging app for the iphone,
> but with no explanation.  No worries, we can provide a few explanations:
> 
> 1. it was invasive
> 2. people hated it
> 3. maybe no one used it
> 4. someone probably threatened to sue their pants off
> 5. ???

LinkedIn just kills me.  Practically everybody I have ever corresponded 
with professionally or personally wants to add me as one of their 
LinkedIn buddies.  It wouldn't be that bad if they didn't also send a 
large amount of reminder messages with each request.  My solution has 
been to flag any LinkedIn mail as spam for some time now.

A question - have any of you received job offers or other career 
enhancements of any kind as a result of LinkedIn?

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#141

On 2014-02-08, Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> wrote:
> A question - have any of you received job offers or other career 
> enhancements of any kind as a result of LinkedIn?

I have friends that have.  What gets me about LinkedIn, however, is
that just browsing around the site gets tracked, and then sent to the
person you're browsing.  I really don't want to know that an old
colleague I didn't care much for anyway, now knows that I've looked him
up to see how he's doing.  So, I don't use the site much.

There is a certain expectation that you have a certain professional
presence on the site, but that doesn't mean you have to actively use
it.

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#167

> A question - have any of you received job offers or other career  
> enhancements of any kind as a result of LinkedIn?

Yes, two times, including my present job.

First time was a job as sysadmin/DBA, now teaching maths & philosophy at a university college.

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#1087

On 08/02/2014 22:36, Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
>
> LinkedIn just kills me.  Practically everybody I have ever corresponded
> with professionally or personally wants to add me as one of their
> LinkedIn buddies.  It wouldn't be that bad if they didn't also send a
> large amount of reminder messages with each request.  My solution has
> been to flag any LinkedIn mail as spam for some time now.
>
> A question - have any of you received job offers or other career
> enhancements of any kind as a result of LinkedIn?
>

There are good consulting contracts and (unfortunately) bad consulting 
contracts. History of the bad contracts will surely follow you all your 
life if ye do the linked in thing...

... so I don't.

Happy to be on facebook (but no work details left there), but NOT linkedin.

-- 
Adrian C

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#1103

On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 10:27:11 +0000
Adrian C <email@here.invalid> wrote:

> 
> Happy to be on facebook (but no work details left there), but NOT linkedin.
> 
> -- 
> Adrian C


I'm the reverse: I'm on linked-in but not Facebook.  I have gotten several job offers, as I have a somewhat unique background.  Haven't taken any. I think it's useful, but still don't want their stupid 'Intro' software.

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#1119

On 2014-02-28, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 10:27:11 +0000
> Adrian C <email@here.invalid> wrote:
>
>> 
>> Happy to be on facebook (but no work details left there), but NOT linkedin.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Adrian C
>
>
> I'm the reverse: I'm on linked-in but not Facebook.  I have gotten
> several job offers, as I have a somewhat unique background.  Haven't
> taken any. I think it's useful, but still don't want their stupid
> 'Intro' software.

I was on LinkedIn but they started to try and take over ny Inbox, so I
sacked them.  Facebook never held any appeal for me and I *really* lost
interest in them when there was one privacy issue after another.

-- 
Paul Sture

"Privacy is theft"   -- The Circle, Dave Eggers

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