It may suck, but if it can help me find a job when I'm out of work ... it is at minimum in the 'useful' category.<br><br>-Andy<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Justin Kremer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:justin.kremer@gmail.com">justin.kremer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Joel Dick <<a href="mailto:joel_cd@yahoo.com">joel_cd@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Dare I ask why people don't like Linkedin? Just wondering, as a few people have recommended that I sign up there, that it's good for job networking.<br>
<br>
</div>It claims to give you a "network of trust" or some other word for<br>
trustworthy businesspeople you know, but it is mostly just a<br>
popularity contest like Facebook for business people who are too good<br>
for Facebook. People add contacts that they've never met in person<br>
regularly, defeating any semblance of this network of trust that<br>
Linkedin is supposed to provide.<br>
And when you sign up, it asks you for your e-mail password so that it<br>
can try to spam everyone in your contacts, which would be how that<br>
e-mail got sent to this mailing list.<br>
I know for a fact that I have a whole lot of people in my e-mail<br>
contact list who I would not consider to be someone I trust, not<br>
necessarily because the person is not trustworthy, but because I don't<br>
know them well enough to vouch for them.<br>
<font color="#888888">- Justin<br>
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