Jerry π¦ππ¦Does anyone feel tightness in their chest when visiting LinkedIn? I perpetually have 200+ invitations waiting and at least that many agitated sales people demanding to know what certifications I want to train my employees in or how many people I plan to hire from their recruiting company
Compuguy π±@jerry Yeah that sums up my thoughts on LinkedIn. Especially when recruiters I don't know at all try to send invite requests...π¬
David Penfold 
@jerry It's horrible
Dan Fernandez 
@jerry I recently experienced awkward interactions from what appeared to be bot accounts since I recently posted a write about the Defend Forward Cyber Strategy. Was not aware of bikini models engaging with such content on a professional networking site.
@danielfernandez I have some female friends who have told me of people asking them out on LinkedIn, so pornbots make sense too
@jerry Interesting. You would think that those types of accounts should be easy to flag/takedown given the narrow scope/use case. One can dream
Cat πββ¬π°οΈβ HAS MOVED TO A NEW SERVER@jerry @danielfernandez Can confirm. There's one big company I'm wary of now because someone from there set up an "interview" that was an excuse to try to grope me in the parking garage. Shit you not.
This is why I don't have a profile picture there anymore.
@catbailey @jerry I'm so sorry to hear that, that's very infuriating.
@danielfernandez @jerry It's a part of why I need full remote that I just don't talk about...I doubt I'm the only one.
@catbailey @danielfernandez @jerry Unfortunately one can still be harassed even remotely...trust me I know. Coworker turned my workplace into a hostile work environment, remotely from another office. π¬
Fennix 
Mad Argon 
@jerry @danielfernandez Reading this thread I feel kind of lucky I haven't experienced worst things there yet. Only random messages with job offers or invitations (I avoid home timeline because of increasing cringe). I consider deleting account in the future.
Newk@jerry Itβs more of a disgusted feeling I have about LinkedIn. All the stupid sob-stories and the hustle mentality mixed with ads. The uninformed recruiters are only a cherry on top.
@jerry Yup. Same thing but from the inappropriate job posting and useless "training" money grabs side. Fewer invites, but the ones I get are turning out to be useful in tracking where the latest state actors trying social engineering are coming from (generally trying to build networks to look legit for targets.)
Sam Grubb@jerry I changed my job title and included the word manager, within minutes I had recuriters in my dms.
Bill@jerry THIS is why I'm a journeyman not an executive. No one gives a crap about me until they get popped.
Lord egeltje π¦ πͺπΊ 
@jerry left about 5 years ago and have never missed it.
When people ask "can we link?" and you say "no, because no account" the truly interested find another way to keep in touch. The others are not missed.
When people ask "can we link?" and you say "no, because no account" the truly interested find another way to keep in touch. The others are not missed.
G. Love@jerry I hate, I mean HATE...the fact that sales people feel it's now OK to be rude AF. Fill up inboxes with BS are you the right guy, respond to me. At this point I told one to FRO (major security company) and started dropping all their emails at the edge. If I'm interested I'll call you thanks!
Chris Routh (He/Him)@jerry this TBH, it's weird. I'm always uncertain how to respond. I want to remain professional because it's a networking site for potential employers first, but it would be so gratifying to tell them to buzz off when it's sales.
Tindra@jerry Iβm currently dealing βoh crap I need to find my first βrealβ (post-military) jobβ anxiety.
So, yes to tightness in my chest, but very different reason.
gh0sti 
@jerry i just ignore the shit.
Siguza@jerry I just feel repulsed. Never had an account there, but everything feels so... fake, spammy, grifty.
James Guthrie π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ@jerry Yep. Constantly getting pitched by Ukrainian IT development companies as well. Serious message fatigue.
tw000@jerry Easily the worst of all the big social networks. Literally no content, just fluff, spam, and junk.
J Wolfgang Goerlich@jerry Same. I keep hearing about how important it is to engage on LinkedIn. But frankly, I donβt find the platform appealing and the UI/UX and affordances turn me off.
Em 
@jerry I heard so much bad Iβve decided to not even create a LinkedIn account. Time will tell if this was a mistake, but hopefully I will not need it.
Bob@jerry Those interactions are why I gave up on LinkedIn and suspended my account.
Vijay Prema@jerry Opening #linkedin is like opening a pandoras box of spam.
Its such a fake platform, most of what is on there is companies scaring each other into spending money, or just trying to look good. It makes it seem like the grass is greener some other place, so that you start being dissatisfied and applying for new jobs and basically its how Linkedin makes money - off of the users perpetual anxiety.
If you have an honest convo with a human you get a real picture about how Linkedin all sucks.
AJ 
@jerry I've been pretty lucky (or I'm just not desirable enough π
β) to have a pretty tame LinkedIn experience. Most of my notifications are something like "other people in your network are following..." so I just ignore those.
James Bennett@jerry Sometimes I wonder if Iβm missing out by not having an account there. Then I see what happens there (and all the sourced-from-LinkedIn phishing texts they get) and I think βnah, Iβm goodβ.
Jerry@jerry visiting what??
dig LinkedIn.com
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;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 43773
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
; EDE: 15 (Blocked): (Blocked by URL Redirect filter policy)
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;LinkedIn.com. IN A
;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Sun Jul 30 12:17:39 CEST 2023
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 84
Debabrata Bhattacharya || SE || πππ@jerry Yes I do. I pretty much abandoned it after college or so. I might pick it up again later, but it hasn't really helped me so far.
It doesn't really work for me right now I guess.
Richard Bejtlich@jerry this is why my policy is generally to deny LinkedIn requests unless Iβve worked closely with the person. Itβs ok to set boundaries.
Fireborn@jerry [i work in sales] and i can tell you it's 1. Hard to connect with anyone you genuinely want to learn from in the tech/infosec wold due to just having that on your profile. 2. Perhaps I'm an outlier and not just connecting to pitch - It's really not helpful in the real world unless that's ONLY what you use your profile for.
Jamie Booth@jerry
I think your problem was visiting linkedin....
I think your problem was visiting linkedin....