@bronxsystem
you must not have nearly as many LinkedIn connections as I do (admittedly, 13,500 is a lot, but I grew my network there for the reason you claim).
In 2020 in particular, LinkedIn has become an absolute cesspool of the types of political gang warfare you'd expect on Facebook or Twitter. Tons of "if you're not with us you're against us" posts on both sides of the black vs. cop debate, COVID conspiracy theories, "Trump is the greatest present in the history of the USA" posts (I mean, even if you like him, I can think of a couple just in his own party far more worthy of something like that)... And it doesn't matter how many times you say, "This is a place for professionals," the professionalism just keeps falling off a cliff. All I can do is disconnect from any first level connections liking or commenting on this nonsense (because much of what's showing up in my feed is from 2nd and 3rd level connections).
And that's not even counting all the "growth hackers" and "influencers" who have been polluting inboxes with tone deaf sales pitches for years.
There are some great tech voices on LinkedIn, but Twitter (despite all the dragons there be) has more and shouldn't be so easily discounted due to its more conversational nature (even if some trolls do try to hijack those convos).
err dont get involved in anything political and its fine. I guess it comes down to what your goals are. Getting your brand out there then yeah take advantage of all social media but for dev jobs its not even close, linkedin is clear winner.
Im posting so people who want to get into dev dont waste their time on twitter posting a cv. silly sausages.
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@bronxsystem you must not have nearly as many LinkedIn connections as I do (admittedly, 13,500 is a lot, but I grew my network there for the reason you claim).
In 2020 in particular, LinkedIn has become an absolute cesspool of the types of political gang warfare you'd expect on Facebook or Twitter. Tons of "if you're not with us you're against us" posts on both sides of the black vs. cop debate, COVID conspiracy theories, "Trump is the greatest present in the history of the USA" posts (I mean, even if you like him, I can think of a couple just in his own party far more worthy of something like that)... And it doesn't matter how many times you say, "This is a place for professionals," the professionalism just keeps falling off a cliff. All I can do is disconnect from any first level connections liking or commenting on this nonsense (because much of what's showing up in my feed is from 2nd and 3rd level connections).
And that's not even counting all the "growth hackers" and "influencers" who have been polluting inboxes with tone deaf sales pitches for years.
There are some great tech voices on LinkedIn, but Twitter (despite all the dragons there be) has more and shouldn't be so easily discounted due to its more conversational nature (even if some trolls do try to hijack those convos).
err dont get involved in anything political and its fine. I guess it comes down to what your goals are. Getting your brand out there then yeah take advantage of all social media but for dev jobs its not even close, linkedin is clear winner.
Im posting so people who want to get into dev dont waste their time on twitter posting a cv. silly sausages.