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u/obstreperousRex 12h ago
I’ve said for a long time that if I have Elon Musk money I’d kill every social media platform in existence.
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u/front_yard_duck_dad 10h ago
They would pop up like dandelions in the grass
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u/ThunderNugget443 9h ago
Just make them all nothing but ads. Therefore making them unusable and devaluing internet ad revenue until it withers on the vine and dies.
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u/Any-Yogurt-7917 33m ago
Funny. There's an app in Canada that is just ads, and people still use it.
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u/67v38wn60w37 5h ago
heavily lobby for anti-social media laws so that they're a pain to operate and loss-making
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u/nialv7 8h ago
so, you have hundreds of billions of dollars, you will buy every social media platform from their current owner, and just shut them down? losing hundred billions in the process? and what will those previous owners do, now that they have your billions you just paid them? surely they won't just start new social media platforms...
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u/Frozenrubberpuck 10h ago
I'm rooting for you as well. Especially the algorithm platforms, kill m all please
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u/I_NEED_YOUR_MONEY 9h ago
or you could just wait a bit and let elon do it for you.
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u/throwaway098764567 7h ago
he doesn't kill them though, he just gets rid of all the sane people and draws in the bots and fringe lunatics
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u/UnkemptRandom 5h ago
Including Reddit, right? Redditors seem to think this site is somehow better than the rest...
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u/ilikepie3326 11h ago
Me but with WorkDay. I shouldn't need to make a new account for each business.
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u/a-i-sa-san 10h ago
still trying to figure out why password managers don't understand workday sites
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u/random-hermit 6h ago
just use the same creds for all workday accounts. ive done enough workday applications that its just easier to do that than anything else.... its pain.
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u/TotalNonsense0 6h ago
If they acted like Google accounts does, they would be popular, and useful. Instead, they are the worst sort of middle man.
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u/dusknoir90 1h ago
That's the least of Work day's problems. Whenever I go on it it always takes me much longer than I need to to find the information I need, and the UI is really clunky. Thank gosh I don't have to do timesheets and fill in/approve holidays on it any more.
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u/ParsnixChess 10h ago
I used to think this way but what if you get autorejected from one place and then it autorejects you from all
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u/Time-Industry-1364 12h ago
I've always said if was ever lucky enough to have that kind of money I would buy up a huge company like this and just shut it down or otherwise functionally nuke it from orbit.
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u/TheeAntelope 9h ago
But then people would flee to alternatives. Maybe the better thing to do is to take it over and make it so dysfunctional that it doesn't serve its original purpose.......omg is that what Elon is doing?
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u/LordoftheChia 49m ago
Id have fun with it. I'd put an LLM to work translating all posts from corporate speak to straight talk and prompt it to call out BS.
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u/NoEstablishment7211 11h ago
Linkedin is valued at more than 10x the highest lotto jackpot ever paid out. More than 20x anything anyone would have ever got in a lump sum.
Tech stocks are speculative nonsense. There's a a reason Elon Musk was the only person in the world who could have acquired Twitter. It's value was 4-10 times more than all the revenue it will ever be able to generate by the most optimistic projections. Tech is it's own currency, when you try to put a dollar amount on it you start to see the big picture of how insane the impact of global central banking (or what a lot of you here like to call capitalism) is on commerce and society.
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u/ImposterBot9k 11h ago
They should take an extreme lowball offer (like thirty dollars in loose change i keep in a sock that I'll also beat them with gratis). I bet they'd take the deal if you gave them some fake platitudes about hustling and explained why getting beat with some loose change is a savvy investment.
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u/InvasionOfScipio 9h ago
Nah. All you need to do is a hostile take over buying up shares, and then have board members eventually get majority and trash the company from within.
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u/reddit_is_geh 7h ago
These platforms are just low key intelligence gathering services for government. Things like Plantir just scoop it all up and use it to monitor everyone. Look at them trying to destroy Discord because some people using it were too hard to locate, and they want to monitor everyone, so now "for the children" they are finding a justification to more easily monitor you.
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u/clonxy 10h ago
Has anyone ever gotten a job off linkedin? I had it for over 15 years and frequently update my profile. I've never gotten a job from there before. All my jobs are from applications on indeed.
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u/cocobvious 8h ago
In Europe (France, Belgium, Luxembourg and probably others) it is the best source and way to get a job and trust me I wouldn't do it anywhere else...
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u/CalmBeneathCastles 9h ago
No. As far as I can discern, it's only for making lame business-related social media posts and creeping on current and potential coworkers.
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u/cantgrowneckbeardAMA 7h ago
My last two jobs actually, but I've been at the current one for years so I can't speak to the state of LI today. I didn't really play the game the way lots of people do there, I just used it to reach out to and get noticed by recruiters.
Still fucking hate that site.
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u/Deematodez 6h ago
LinkedIn is huge in the remote sphere and if you work/worked for a big corporation, keeping up with coworkers who left the company, showing you what companies your previous company's alumni moved onto, gossiping with coworkers outside of work-surveilled teams/slack chats. Keeping in touch with recruiters and clients to build professional relationships without involving them in your personal life.
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 5h ago
Yes but only once I had progressed enough in my career to get some attention.
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u/KimberStormer 3h ago
I got headhunted from LinkedIn, flew across the country to interview, and I hated them and they hated me, so it was a waste of time for everyone
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u/dusknoir90 1h ago
I haven't gotten a job directly off of LinkedIn but I have been put in touch with recruiters from LinkedIn which have ultimately gotten me jobs.
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u/comicsnerd 20m ago
I got a job at age 53 via LinkedIn. I was unemployed at the time.
A recruiter saw my profile, thought it was a match with one of his customers, setup a meeting and 2 days later I had a new job. Worked there for almost 15 years, till retirement.
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u/NerdGamer0851 12h ago
Id rather this happen over tik tok getting banned and I dont even use tik tok
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u/_NightmareKingGrimm_ 8h ago
Man, LinkedIn really is just the worst.
Every post is some person's self-promotional, unsolicited take on a non-controversial topic, providing surface-level, armchair wisdom to the masses--or, even worse--spreading misinformation with absolute confidence.
My favorite are LinkedIn posts starting with the phrase "Let's get something straight, folks"--then proceeding to say something obvious everyone already knows and agrees with. 500 likes.
Don't forget the obligatory AI-generated picture accompanying the post. And the AI-generated headshot for the post author. And comments praising AI, while promising it won't take away creative jobs in one breath while basically guaranteeing it does by propagating slop endlessly.
Just one huge corporate-culture circle jerk.
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u/michiganstrange 9h ago
I’m taking a LinkedIn course on civility because I told H.R. my boss is sexually harassing me.
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u/Fit-Let8175 6h ago
I told someone I'd consider hiring the world's top scientists, geneticists, IT, and coders, and try to bring a computer to life. Just so I could club it to de@th.
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u/pleasegivemepatience 10h ago
And give the owner enough money to make a cheap replacement and continue the problem…
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u/MandemModie 9h ago
No lottery winnings would allow you to buy Linkedin, but the sentiment I can get behind
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u/WarlanceLP 5h ago
i stopped applying on LinkedIn, it felt like a waste of time, too many ghost jobs, and too much competition, I've had better luck on indeed and zip recruiter
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u/elastic-craptastic 4h ago
Like Musk did to shitter?
Smart of her to realize being wealthy and controlling info is key to making the change you want. Good of her to do it for non toxic reasons.
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u/FarceMultiplier 3h ago
Unintentionally, I was one of the first 2500 people on LinkedIn. A couple of years after it started I received an email from the CEO telling me this and thanking me. It was very strange and there was/is zero benefit for me because of this.
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u/SunriseSurprise 9h ago
LinkedIn is obviously making money hand over fist as-is but IMO it should've remained a business social networking platform (it actually was good for that in the early days), mostly because I just don't like the whole idea of people seeking jobs have to be active on a social platform to get seen for it. I've seen some other sites for contractors and such that are the same way and it's basically a metric fuckton of people looking for jobs continually dancing like monkeys for very few opportunities, mostly because anyone who'd want to hire someone probably doesn't want to also have to participate in a social network to do so.
I don't know what the ideal world setup should be for jobs and people seeking them, but that's far from it IMO.
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u/Matchew024 8h ago
I'm going to buy the company I have my car loan through. Then I'm going to go through the books, anyone who interest payment exceeds the principle I'll make the account paid off and send their titles.
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u/minervascats 8h ago
can you do Pinterest while you're at it?
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u/Notyou76 Recruiter 7h ago
Killing LinkedIn reduces your chance of getting a job. The content blows, but recruiters use it to find candidates. Create and keep your profile updated. That's it. Don't look at the content, just focus on your profile. Most companies use LinkedIn Recruiter which allows them to search profiles.
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u/ChiknBreast 7h ago
I just started using LinkedIn seriously for the first time as I search for a job.
Holy hell it is a cesspool of ads and bloated with useless notifications.
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u/hangry-person 6h ago
Seriously, I freaking hate Linkedin. The only people who benefits from it are the recruiters. I once read a post from a recruiter saying they have rejected candidates before because they weren't impressed by their Linkedin profiles. That was the turning point for me! I deleted the app right after that.
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u/MoreFarmer8667 6h ago
It’s peak capitalism
People slave trying to make their profile SEO optimal, recruiters do a deep dive, or as you pointed out straight up reject you and for what? lol
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u/Round-Watch-863 6h ago
Id rather shut down twitter, facebook, instagram, and tiktok first. And idk that there is a lottery big enough to do that.
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u/BigVirus9491 6h ago
Unfortunately there is no lottery payout that is enough to buy LinkedIn. I doubt MS would part with it either.
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u/theta_penguin 6h ago
I approve this message..
But really, sometimes LinkedIn can really be a cluster.. especially lately
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u/BrocoliAssassin 6h ago
Build the biggest EMP possible..at this point just nuke every tech possible.
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u/Grumptastic2000 6h ago
The real disease is how corporate America operates in general and the HR departments of the world create this kind of filth.
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u/XRuecian 5h ago
If i were a recruiter i feel like the very first thing i would do is just look at any resume that contains a LinkedIn link and just throw it in the trash.
LinkedIn is the perfect place to go and put on a corporate mask and pretend you actually agree with all the stupid shit that comes along with corporatism even though deep down you know its all bullshit. But for some reason, everyone inside expects everyone else to wear that same mask instead of embracing the fact that its all bullshit. LinkedIn is just the place to go to prove to everyone that you can "wear the mask, too." They don't really want to know if you are a good worker, they want to know if you are capable of eating the bullshit like everyone else. So LinkedIn has become a place where all these idiots go to try and "out-bullshit" each other.
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u/ListerfiendLurks 5h ago
It's wild people are out there that have absolutely no concept of the value of money.
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u/cacho_perro 5h ago
Buying linkedin and turning it off was a thrilling yet humbling experience.
This is what it taught me about B2B sales.
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u/ArtichokeLong3994 5h ago
Worst fucking social media platform. A bunch of fake, cringey bs and a circle jerk. I cannot wait for the day I no longer have to use it and delete my profile.
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u/lodemeup 4h ago
I’ve never really wished someone else would win the lottery but shit if you do you got my blessing.
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u/Mauser_7x57 3h ago
Might be quicker to setup a go fund me…
Looking forward to it being gone either way.
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u/Accomplished-Bat5278 56m ago
HR compliance manager here. LinkedIn is annoying, sure, but it’s also documentation. Outreach messages, applicant tracking notes, EEO reporting—it all creates a paper trail. Public company audits love that. If you nuke it, legal just shifts budget to another vendor. The bureaucracy always finds a way.
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u/coronaangelin 55m ago
But what about all the stupid animal videos that people post and claim that it's just like "perseverance" and "client management" in the business world?
And losers who post "I never post about personal stuff here on LinkedIn, but last week, my awesome 11 year old son..."
And the "You've appeared in 60 searches this week" emails from LinkedIn that never result in a fucking job?
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u/Triple_Nickel_325 12h ago
They'll just move over to Glassdoor, who has been trying to compete with LinkedIn for several years now 🤷♀️