{"id":26,"date":"2006-10-17T02:44:40","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T01:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paul.sinnett.name\/archives\/26"},"modified":"2014-01-06T02:45:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T01:45:07","slug":"theres-no-pleasing-some-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/archives\/26","title":{"rendered":"There’s no pleasing some people"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote a while back about LinkedIn<\/a>. In that short time I have connected with 60+ colleagues. I had lost touch with many of them years ago and it’s been great catching up. LinkedIn has worked well for me but for others the experience was not as good.<\/p>\n

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My own policy on accepting connections is the suggested method<\/a> for using the site: I only link to those I have worked with or know well. I have had some invitations from recruiters but I politely declined. <\/p>\n

Not everyone in my network has been as cautious. A few appear to be treating it as a game: aiming to get the most links they can. The down side to this behaviour is a network in which you have no interest<\/a>. This is not a problem in itself, but you then get spammed with requests from people you don’t know and have no interest in helping. This leads to users shutting down their accounts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

LinkedIn, like many Internet services, has no official self-service method for closing an account. (The un-official method is to turn off notifications, remove your connections, and rename yourself to something anonymous.) Konstantin Guericke, co-founder of LinkedIn, laments this missing feature but doesn’t expect it to be used much once it is there<\/a>. <\/p>\n

This has led some to profess hatred for the service. Jeff Attwood has flipped the bozo bit on the service<\/a>. He brands it a chain letter and a pyramid scheme. And he goes on to suggest that and anyone using it does not deserve to be taken seriously.<\/p>\n

Although I’m not convinced that Jeff’s hatred of the service is genuine he does offer a good rule of thumb: if you’re a member of something and you’re not seeing personal benefits then you should opt out. I subscribed to Jeff’s RSS feed a few months ago but since then I’ve seen no personal benefit. Perhaps I’ll take his advice.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure Jeff and the others represent the views of most LinkedIn users. There’s only one way to settle this: fight!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wrote a while back about LinkedIn<\/a>. In that short time I have connected with 60+ colleagues. I had lost touch with many of them years ago and it’s been great catching up. LinkedIn has worked well for me but for others the experience was not as good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}