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This is LinkedIn isn’t it? This exactly the trash you’d expect from tech bros choosing this as their social media platform of choice. Reminder: Microsoft owns LinkedIn & you can delete your account today (since 90% of your messages & recruitement is spam/trash).
Deleting LinkedIn is not viable.
Many companies will only hire if you also have LinkedIn and connections to previous companies. What you are suggesting would be career suicide for many industries and fields. It would be like removing your paper contributions from publications just because they're a scam. We know it's a scam. There are no other options.
The real way to use linkedIn is treat it like a virtual CV. Just enter all the important info on your profile, connect to past employers and employees who would be able to provide good reference and that's it. No need to browse through the slop trough of a timeline or actively post about your "recent meeting with some random supplier going great!" Because no hiring manager gives a shit about the social aspect.
Absolutely agreed, I do the same and also message past colleagues to keep up with them.
LinkedIn is one of the platforms I felt I could reasonably delete since I got little to know value out of it (rather it was more of a drain)—& I didn’t have something like family connections to worry about.
One doesn't just delete LinkedIn. In fact, one can't totally. Once it's got its claws into you, your hooked with steel barbs. It's easier to escape ebola.