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I think commenters here are missing out on one beneficial part of social media - Facebook groups and communities of interest especially private, moderated groups. Broadcast and discussions are a perfect use case for it.

And people talk about how bad Facebook is, LinkedIn is far worse. Everyone is trying to be a “thought leader” and no one is genuine on it.

I have a decent LinkedIn Profile with recommendations, up to date career information. But I never post to it.

I’m only really active when I’m looking for a job. I will respond to messages and try to keep my network somewhat warm.

>>scarfa+(OP)
To me, LinkedIn is nothing more than a Job advertisement board where you open yourself up to being spammed by the recruiter hoards.

>>4dregr+n6
The last LinkedIn recruiter saved me from very bad job. Now I have a reasonable boss, private office, no commute time and same salary. Of course, the 20 recruiters before were bad joke.

>>scarfa+(OP)
My father and a few army friends were able to find each other and sometimes find another guy from their year through Facebook. They do big cookouts together and they started with 3 guys and progressively found more of each other and they had long lost contact. They are now great friends again and in their retirement this brings them a huge happiness.

But some people just can't fathom there's different lives too their own and throw the baby out with the bath water.

>>scarfa+(OP)
> I think commenters here are missing out on one beneficial part of social media

A small group of people surely do, but for others the benefit doesn't outweigh the negative. Social media is great, in theory, but Facebooks implementations suck and I won't support a company like Facebook who I believe negatively impacts society. The problems and much of the anger stems from feeling almost forced to use the products of a company I think manipulates and exploit it's users. It's almost impossible for my kid to have a social life and for me to be involved without a Facebook account and I can't even offer an alternative form of communication because pretty much anything else would be more work for everyone else.

Agree on you with Linkedin. It's basically an account to a job board, that you keep active in case you need to look for work. The people trying to get engagement on their posts are almost all pretty much insane.

>>scarfa+(OP)
I use it for events.

I have to facebook friends that I don't interact with very much outside some electronic music events. This helps me find events that might interest me.

Some venues don't even put the dates on their website.