{"id":1042,"date":"2020-02-07T01:19:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T00:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hjinterim.org\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2020-02-07T01:19:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T00:19:58","slug":"why-linkedin-is-no-longer-a-social-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hjinterim.tech\/index.php\/2020\/02\/07\/why-linkedin-is-no-longer-a-social-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Is LinkedIn no longer a \u201cSocial Network\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What is LinkedIn good for, beyond spamming strangers? Do people actually get jobs on there?<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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LinkedIn is that unlikely contradiction: the social network that\u2019s all business. No one\u2019s up late at night checking out their connections\u2019 connections, or who endorsed who and for what. You log in about once a month, you accept the \u201cinvitations to connect\u201d from a handful of strangers, and you log out. And you\u2019re sent, on average, 1.75 emails a day for the privilege.<\/p>\n

At least that\u2019s not about the extent of my own engagement. As far as social media housekeeping goes, maintaining my LinkedIn is the equivalent of cleaning the cutlery drawers, or wiping down lightbulbs \u2013 you do it irregularly and perfunctorily because someone told you to, not because there\u2019s any obvious benefit.<\/p>\n

But it seems I may have underestimated LinkedIn \u2013 at least by numbers. It has half a billion <\/em>members, about 180m fewer than Twitter, with 319m monthly active users as of February<\/a>. And think of all the words, energy and analysis given over to tweets. (One word: covfefe.)<\/p>\n

The platform says each new connection extends the reach of your professional network by an average of 400 people, 100 companies and more than 500 jobs. It all sounds like a bit much to expect of my ex-girlfriend\u2019s dad and my high school English teacher, both of whom invited me to connect three years ago \u2013 but who am I to close any potential doors?<\/p>\n

To use Seinfeld terminology, LinkedIn feels a little like the Bizarro Facebook, where instead of births and engagements people publicise their \u201cmicroactions\u201d and \u201cthought leadership\u201d. One consultant with a large following described herself as \u201cthe Michael Bay of business\u201d. Fleetingly, I wondered: would anyone buy that I was the Michael Bay of journalism?<\/p>\n

LinkedIn is that kind of place \u2013 \u201ca wasteland of endless management consultants congratulating each other\u201d, to quote one correspondent.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a healthy environment,\u201d someone else messaged me. \u201cThere\u2019s an excess focus on simulating optimism and excitement, rather than clear-headed discussion on issues. It\u2019s like a giant, living, breathing resume, complete with bad formatting, plasticised optimism and synthetic relationships.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the worst of social media, combined with the worst of corporate culture, combined with the worst of website design. I hate it, but I have to also pretend to love it for my own work and to communicate with my industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

He concluded by asking me not to name him: \u201cI\u2019m actually on the lookout for jobs, and my clients are pretty keen on LinkedIn!\u201d<\/p>\n

Many people I spoke to \u2013 across a wide range of sectors, including business, finance, energy, automotive and telecom \u2013 shared his sense of resignation. LinkedIn wasn\u2019t necessarily their platform of choice, but that\u2019s where their industries were. The user experience was singled out as frustrating \u2013 not to mention the spam, with one user urging others to be \u201csuper-careful\u201d about invitations to connect: \u201cPress the wrong button and your friends get pestered for eternity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know any companies that don\u2019t use LinkedIn to spam their products or services,\u201d said someone else, who works in the start-up sector.<\/p>\n

Over the years LinkedIn became more of a copy of Facebook, at least there you know what you are posting is not making sense to some people or not even taken seriously. LinkedIn, is since the last years a network which people showing how good they in their job, making a promotion or asking for recommendations, but are these recommendations grounded on the reality?<\/p>\n

So basically, what is the difference between Facebook and LinkedIn?<\/p>\n

Influencers<\/strong><\/p>\n

As some of you can remember is that LinkedIn launched the Influencer program in Oct. 2012 allowing 150 so-called \u201cthought leaders\u201d to share their original content directly with us LinkedIn plebs. They did this because their social news platform \u201cLinkedIn Today\u201d launched the year prior, was in dire need of something fresher than the soggy old news of aggregated content, which could be read and shared by members. The Influencer program soon expanded to (approximately) 500 leaders (with thoughts) and is flexible. LinkedIn says \u201cWe regularly evaluate existing Influencers to include only the most engaged, prolific, and thoughtful contributors and to ensure that their expertise matches our members\u2019 interests.\u201d So keep giving us the good stuff and earn your keep Mr\/Ms Influencer. Don\u2019t bother bothering LinkedIn to get on the list, they\u2019ll call you.<\/p>\n

So, are these influencers writing their text themselves? What do you think, that fact is that these influencers have people who are creating and writing these topics for them, or did you really think that Mr. Richard Branson is writing his own content for LinkedIn, to name one?<\/p>\n

Now let\u2019s get to the main points of this blog.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I wrote some time a blog post asking for assistance to help me out for a new opportunity from my fellow LinkedIn Connections, the result was embarrassing! And I admit, I did not even got one email from anyone, so would you call LinkedIn still part of a \u201cProfessional Social Network\u201d?<\/p>\n

My lovely wife, was a few years by accident infected duo a hospital visit with HIV, this effected our total family and friends. In despite of this struggle which I not want that anybody has to go true, I thought we had the worst behind us, but nevertheless was true.<\/p>\n

On December 5th, I got the message that Darkmatter llc was being sold to the Abu Dhabi Holding and that there would be a new name for the company namely Digital14, which would operate under the Edge Group under the umbrella from the holding. The former Ceo would have a new position, as yes, you guest it already, the new CEO of Digital14, this time under a permanent contract as employee of the holding, so their solution was to terminated all contractors under the excuse of the Emiratisation<\/a> .<\/p>\n

So there we were standing all alone and once again looking out for a new assignment, which became also a struggle, recruitment agencies in the UAE, who did not reply on responses on their open and urgent vacancies? You know, it is like you are standing in a mud pool and slowly going down under, like we did not yet faced more than enough problems the past last years.<\/p>\n

Let me explain my LinkedIn connections something else, even in this current bad position, whenever someone was reaching out to me to assist Him\/Her to assist finding another position, I was always there and, in most cases, I had a success rate of 99% to find them another role. And no, there was not even mention for a fee, this was a \u201csocial jester\u201d to help my connection(s) out, which is the main reason of this network, helping each other whenever we can, is that not the meaning of a Professional Business Social Network?<\/p>\n

Reading all the above, I want to reach out to all of you, to ask for \u201cYOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE<\/strong>\u201d ,if you know maybe a possible new role for me, my family and me, would highly appreciate this from your side and will not go by unnoticed you can count on this for sure.<\/p>\n

You can reach me always on the following media:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Website:<\/strong> https:\/\/hjinterim.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Whatsapp:<\/strong> +971521634441<\/p>\n

Mobile:<\/strong> +971521634441<\/p>\n

LinkedIn:<\/strong> Profile<\/a><\/p>\n

Email:<\/strong> dr.henkjan.jansen@hjinterim.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Skype:<\/strong> dr.henk.jan.jansen@outlook.com<\/a><\/p>\n

I want to thank you for reading this blog post and for your comments and reaching out to me.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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What is LinkedIn good for, beyond spamming strangers? Do people actually get jobs on there? LinkedIn is that unlikely contradiction: the social network that\u2019s all business. No one\u2019s up late at night checking out their connections\u2019 connections, or who endorsed who and for what. You log in about once a month, you accept the \u201cinvitations to connect\u201d … Read moreIs LinkedIn no longer a \u201cSocial Network\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,20,22,23,24,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-financial-industry","category-gdpr","category-reaching-out-network","category-recruitement","category-reporting","category-your-help-is-needed","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hjinterim.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hjinterim.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hjinterim.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hjinterim.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hjinterim.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hjinterim.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hjinterim.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hjinterim.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hjinterim.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hjinterim.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}