For many years I went without looking at LinkedIn at all. I even deleted my LinkedIn account for couple of years in mid '10s.
I have found a lot of value in LinkedIn recently after I started interacting with news, posts, and people that have something interesting to say. It is as if you tell the algorithm what you like, it will show more things like that.
I also proactively flag things I don't like to see. That also helps a lot in improving my feed, I assume.
Th "updates" feed with all the opentowork, hiring, promotions doesn't bother me much. it has it's uses, and its easy to just eyeball and move on.
What I don't understand is the grandstanding about how LinkedIn and its users are all dumb. You can always timebox your interactions with LinkedIn and ignore it rest of the time if you cannot afford to NOT have a LinkedIn account.
Oh! and learn to use the notification settings. Turn off email alerts etc.,
I have found a lot of value in LinkedIn recently after I started interacting with news, posts, and people that have something interesting to say. It is as if you tell the algorithm what you like, it will show more things like that.
I also proactively flag things I don't like to see. That also helps a lot in improving my feed, I assume.
Th "updates" feed with all the opentowork, hiring, promotions doesn't bother me much. it has it's uses, and its easy to just eyeball and move on.
What I don't understand is the grandstanding about how LinkedIn and its users are all dumb. You can always timebox your interactions with LinkedIn and ignore it rest of the time if you cannot afford to NOT have a LinkedIn account.
Oh! and learn to use the notification settings. Turn off email alerts etc.,