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On the one hand I absolutely get wanting to go to where the up and coming talent is. On the other I think a bit more distance between personal and professional platforms is probably in everyone's best interests. I'm curious to see if this gets much traction.

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I already see too many people using LinkedIn as a second FaceBook. The few times I look at my feed I see people posting political opinions and other touchy subjects on their "wall" (not sure what the official name is on linked in). I always thought these professional social networks were more for keeping an up to date resume accessible and tweeting or re-tweeeting interesting work topics.

This should be one of those laws:

> As the quality of a social network deteriorates, it becomes indistinguishable from Facebook.

> All social networks converge to Facebook over time.

Something like that. It needs some work but you get the idea.

The eternal September is like entropy, it eventually catches up with all things.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

I'd substitute 'Twitter' for that law.

I'm always blown away by how unnecessarily cruel people are on that site.

Some people can't help themselves, and I bet linkedIN's algorithm news story feed optimizes for "engagement" which means political flamebait.

I think there is some percentage of people who actually purposefully would create engagement-worthy postings...just to attract attention, thinking that it will suffice in bringing in eyeballs that they can sift through. (A tweak of the old adage that there's supposedly no such thing as bad publicity.) I'm not a fan of this because it likely would not attract those employers who would be an ideal fit. But i know some folks who likely do that with intent.

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