LinkedIn is Shutting Down Stories (adage.com) 21
LinkedIn is telling advertisers to prepare for the end of its short-lived experiment with Stories, after the ephemeral videos failed to catch on among the professional social media set.
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
Christ, give it up Microsoft (Score:4, Insightful)
Linked-in's only value is holding and advertising your CV. As a place for social interaction it's jam-packed full of self-promoting humble-braggers whose lack of authenticity can make you physically ill.
Predictably when Microsoft took over, they locked most of the value behind an hilariously expensive paywall. Only recruiters and the desperate are paying for that.
Re:Christ, give it up Microsoft (Score:4, Interesting)
Apparently also a trend in employed people feeling compelled to post about what their company is doing. Some of these people I know well, watching them shamelessly promote a product I know they don't believe in is...painful to watch.
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Apparently that's why they were so keen for the link. Because if they weren't linked to me, they'd have to spend a point on an inmail. They'd get the point back if I
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It's also valuable as a contacts list, for all the people you don't care to let know about your real life. But yeah, its not a social media site as much as it wishes to be.
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I'm sure that if I was a CEO, CTO or CFO that I would be getting other kinds of
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I wound up adding a note to my profile saying that I was not looking for work. Stopped all recruiters bugging me for 'one off contract gigs in my area'
They drove me nuts as
1) I'm happy in my job and currently not looking for anything else, and
2) I live in a smallish region - I'm pretty certain that these gigs aren't actually real
I check LinkedIn about once a month - These days it's just another form of Social Media BS
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Giant Infomercial. I hold my nose @ LinkedIn (Score:2)
Damn, I was hopeful for a minute (Score:2)
I read the title as stories of LinkedIn shutting down...
Return to the Usenet/former internet structure (Score:3)
It's high time that the internet goes back to it's redundant and no one person controls everything roots.
Usenet far predates the web, but it still has users, and if one provider decides to not carry certain groups, you can just switch to another provider.
We need something like this for the web
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Um, what? The *web* is kind of like Usenet, except you don't need a "provider."
If you mean some sort of multi-source version of social media web site (i.e. a place to post pictures and long screeds about how enthusiastic and positive you are), well, there are a shitload of those to choose from. Just use a different one. LinkedIn is definitely my least favourite.
Re: Return to the Usenet/former internet structure (Score:2)
The idea is that you can post a. LinkedIn "story" and if one website decides to no longer carry "stories", it won't disappear entirely off the internet as other sites would likely still carry "stories".
We do have a sort of Usenet system going on now on the web unintentionally, largely via news websites parroting each other often word for word.
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Make your own web site. Put a link to it on your LinkedIn profile if you must.
So close (Score:2)
How long? (Score:2)
fgsfds (Score:1)
Linked In needs to stop trying to.... (Score:1)
About time... (Score:1)
Stories worked fine in my opinion. (Score:1)