Do you think this would explain the status of places like LinkedIn? Long ago, it was an OK place to have an online CV. Now it is a place people use show off with non-relevant _stuff_.
LinkedIn is a weird place indeed. Every couple months or so I pop in to check something or somebody out, and my eyes briefly skim my "feed". What I've noticed over the past year or two is that people who I know personally that have much more clout and much better network than I do, particularly the ones I know from the local startup culture - the people who have no reason to visit the site - they seem to be posting and reposting a lot of _stuff_ there recently.
I have two competing hypotheses for it. One, they're just bored, and LinkedIn is the new Facebook for middle/upper-middle class people. Two, there are signalling to and chasing people with access to lots of money, who for reasons unfathomable to me, also hang out on LinkedIn.
Unemployed middle class people who suddenly have a lot of time on their hands -- more than job hunting can possibly consume -- not to mention that many people mope around a bit (dealing with a kind of minor depression) just after fired and take a couple of weeks to get their mojo going again.
I think the "middle-class" comes from the fact that such people have cash savings to weather a job hunt, whereas people without savings have to start working pronto on whatever if they're going to be eating and roofed in two weeks.
> I have two competing hypotheses for it. One, they're just bored, and LinkedIn is the new Facebook for middle/upper-middle class people. Two, there are signalling to and chasing people with access to lots of money, who for reasons unfathomable to me, also hang out on LinkedIn.
Here's a third one: It's curated to folks with similar professional interests and isn't political.
Though I don't really use it myself, it's apparently very effective for companies to use to post stuff. So there's a fairly systematic effort at a lot of places to get employees to post recommended articles/posts on LinkedIn.
I don't know. I deleted my Linkedin Account long time ago.
People receive a lot of BS on Linkedin but for some people it works. This being said, the people I know whit 8-9 fig net worth, you wont find on linkedin.
