LinkedIn is Shutting Down Stories

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.

Christ, give it up Microsoft

[Cryptimus]

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

[Austerity Empowers]

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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[Baleet]

Agreed. I first joined LinkedIn to have contact to real-life colleagues and coworkers. An online representation of my professional network. And I seem to recall that LinkedIn itself counseled that users connect only to people they knew irl or could be vouched for by irl colleagues. Nowadays, it's just another pimps-and-hos site for spamming the shit out of the entire world and dispensing execrable pablum for the sole purpose of self-promotion. Damn! I didn't realize I was so pent-up about it!

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[DrXym]

I remember when I was a bit more naive about the service and I had 5 or 6 agents I'd worked with in the past who sent me invites that I accepted. What did they do with that trust? Spam the shit out of me. They'd have some role, e.g. for java, typed in a keyword that I matched up with and they'd fling shit at me and every one of their matches.

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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[AuMatar]

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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[DrXym]

I wouldn't even say it's good for advertising your CV because I DON'T advertise my CV and haven't checked any box saying I'm looking for a job but I still get bugged by agents and others who've paid to see my skills in their search screens and paid to communicate with me. I don't link with these people (I learned the hard way that it is an open invitation for them to spam with impunity) but they still bother me through inmail.

I'm sure that if I was a CEO, CTO or CFO that I would be getting other kinds of

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[Mogster]

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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[DrXym]

I've thought about saying I'm not looking for job but I like the idea of them wasting their time and precious InMails reaching out to me so I can ignore them. What I find funny is sometimes I'll get spam from people who clearly paid no attention to anything but my skill and spam me despite me the job being hundreds of miles away and sometimes even in another country or continent.

Giant Infomercial. I hold my nose @ LinkedIn

[Seven Spirals]

I try to login as little as possible and get out as soon as possible. All of these kind of cites I use once ever 5-10 years when changing jobs.

Damn, I was hopeful for a minute

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

I read the title as stories of LinkedIn shutting down...

Return to the Usenet/former internet structure

[Malays2 bowman]

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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[ceoyoyo]

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

[Malays2 bowman]

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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[ceoyoyo]

Make your own web site. Put a link to it on your LinkedIn profile if you must.

So close

[PoopMonkey]

Get rid of Stories, and that would've been an excellent headline.

How long?

[NicknamesAreStupid]

The next story might be, "When will Microsoft sell off LinkedIn?" There are no synergies.

fgsfds

[grave367]

I'm still amazed that Linkedin is a thing, to be honest.

Linked In needs to stop trying to....

[leafares]

be more than an online resumé haven with contacts and comments. Who has time to make and edit videos about one's workday unless you're specifically paid to do so?

About time...

[Syntastic]

Everyone added that crap to their apps all at the same time and made it so it was in your face with no way to disable it. I uninstalled Twitter and LinkedIn and used the web sites because of this garbage. Looks like its safe to go back, at least until the next stupid ass idea comes along.

Stories worked fine in my opinion.

[RobinC1234]

I do not know the complete statistics, but it was this function that helped me find my current employer. [fixerjoe.com] It is a pity that they will close the work of Stories.