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Comment by lwheelock | Hacker News Reader

> This would genuinely make me migrate off github permanently, both for personal projects and work.

A-men.

I recently set up a LinkedIn profile after avoiding them for many years, and was horrified to discover that there's now a "Facebook wall" feature, replete with all the horrible political conversations that made me abandon Facebook. It's totally in-your-face, too; it's the default home page and the default Android app page. I don't want to see what people I've connected on LinkedIn have to say about, well, anything. I only maintain social connections there to help me network with potential employers. I'm deleting my LinkedIn profile as soon as I connect with my next employer.

Unless recruiting or sales is part of your job, the best approach to LinkedIn is to set your profile up well, connect with the people you know and then go to Settings & Privacy -> Communications and switch on email notifications for direct messages you receive. Then you'll only ever have to login should you get an email about a message you might be interested in replying to.

There is absolutely nothing of value on LinkedIn for the average person beyond being a place to host your resume for discovery.

You don’t even need to log in for replying to messages. IIRC you can just reply to the email and that would get relayed.

I wanted an online resume and refused to sign up for LinkedIn, so I built https://standardresume.co. It's free to use the web version and can automatically import the data from your LinkedIn profile. I'm curious to hear your thoughts if you have a few minutes to check it out.

Did not know that. Glad I dumped LinkedIn two years ago.

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