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I don't oppose deleting social media, but I can't see to understand one simple thing.

LinkedIn is the de-facto standard for looking for a job in certain places. I wonder, people who deleted LinkedIn, how do they get along with looking for a job?

>>skwee3+(OP)
Direct networking works very well (in person, mail, phone, recommandation, job posting sites, etc.).

LinkedIn is merely a glamour social network + "pro" dynamic address book + kind of a standardised CV, nothing much more.

>>skwee3+(OP)
Usually in the context of deleting social media, it is Facebook, Xitter, TikTok, Instagram, and Reddit.

LinkedIn is closer to other portfolio sites (ArtStation, Behance, SoundCloud, etc). It’s basically professional achievements with comments.

I suppose it is social media in the broadest sense. But a lot of evils of social media aren’t there, just how perfect people pretend their lives are. But there aren’t many echo chambers, instances of shock content, manufactured outrage, cancel culture, politicking, lord of the fly-ing, etc.

>>skwee3+(OP)
LinkedIn is an oddity in that, while there is a (very strange) social network there, the vast majority of LinkedIn users do not use it as a social network, they use it as a CV host, and may not even look at it in any given year.

(I do think think contributes to extreme weirdness of LinkedIn posts; there's really ~no-one normal using the social network bit of LinkedIn.)