What’s the point of LinkedIn anyway? Games - are you serious?<p>It’s become so thoroughly Facebookified but so, so much worse because it pretends to have value. At least Facebook is honest about its intentions to kill your time. Heck, Facebook Marketplace and Groups probably have more redeeming utility than LinkedIn’s job board.<p>I don’t see updates or job posts or anything good from people in my network who can positively impact my career, just vapid influencer junk timewasters.<p>My inbox is all spam irrelevant job opportunities and biz scammers who want to sell me things.<p>Nobody I know in real life answers messages since they had to turn off notifications to stay sane.<p>And the job board sucks. You can buy Premium to supposedly help your job search but it does nothing useful. I feel at a disadvantage to other candidates when I apply on LinkedIn.<p>I used to think I needed to have a LinkedIn as a sort of verification of my real-ness, or perhaps as a form of transparency to show prospective employers that I’m not hiding overemployment, but I’m not sure anymore. If LinkedIn is this bad I feel like there must be a lot of companies who don’t trust it anymore, who don’t care to see the LinkedIn profile of their applicants.<p>Finally, back to this whole games thing…if you’re playing games on your phone at least realize that there are so many wonderful, artistic, rich games out there, either on mobile platforms, emulated, or on other handheld devices. Like, all these Wordle-like time wasters are <i>boring</i>. Me, personally, if I’m going to play a game, I’m going to play a proper game, the kind that has art, graphics, sound, maybe even story or role playing.