Max Leibman1d ago
A LinkedIn for spies would be a professsional social networking site where everybody lied about who they were and what they had worked on.

So LinkedIn, basically.
Show threadMax Leibman1d ago
“But I don’t lie on LinkedIn” is exactly what someone who lies on LinkedIn would say.

(It’s also what someone who didn’t get the joke would say.)
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I thought of this whole “LinkedIn for spies” riff while I was struggling to describe to someone how I use LinkedIn.

I hibernated my “real” LinkedIn profile a few years ago and created a second account. Different email address, not my whole name, no contacts, no job history. I now use LinkedIn solely for what you could call corporate intelligence-gathering.

(Is that gross and cynical? Sure. But everything about LinkedIn is gross and/or cynical, including the users.)

Apr 4 at 11:35pmWeb
Show threadBirch-o-matic1d ago

@maxleibman I’ve done similar. A colleague and I went to an industry event where we were registered through our company. That event allowed you to day of registration, for a nominal cost.

We left and re-registered under LLCs we each separately had. Much easier to get competitors to talk to us and demo their products. No NDA level info but good to hear how they talk about their products

Show threadDB1d ago
@maxleibman More than half the people on there do it