It is supposed to be a professional network, but the quality is lower then my facebook feed.<p>Meaning the 'Pulse' which shares outdated or irrelevant (x tips to y) stories, updates, the timeline which is filled with absolutely useless/annoying content. The groups who are owned are taken over by recruiters/spam.<p>I guess its only real power is to be connected with (previous) colleagues and to see what they're up to. And ofcourse the job postings for companies (although I would never look for a job starting on Linkedin..)<p>Am I the only one?
I use LinkedIn's news feed to build my personal brand among my connections, and to keep my face in front of some connections with the power to hire me. In general, the news feed is full of boring articles, but that's simply because the people posting them are trying to reinforce their brand image of "boring".<p>I've been sharing 1 article a day for the past 6 months, in addition to responding to group questions. Since my objective is branding, it's not easy to quantify results. But anecdotally, some contacts have mentioned to me that they enjoy what I've been sharing.
No, you are not.<p>In fact, this excellent column [1] states this viewpoint (and some reasons behind the problem) better than I ever could.<p>[1] www.thebaffler.com/past/all_linkedin_with_nowhere_to_go
As far as I can see they don't seem to have a good algorithm to distinguish viral content and quality articles from spam.<p>I think that's the crux of the issue.