>Anyways, AMA
What precisely is LinkedIn trying to be?
Seems like it's turning into 2007 Facebook. Is that intentional?
What precisely is LinkedIn trying to be?
Seems like it's turning into 2007 Facebook. Is that intentional?
Oh, you meant what are they trying to be that's helpful to the user? Doesn't matter.
I suspect the user base has largely driven it. From the beginning it seemed that regardless of the stated purpose users wanted to use LinkedIn as a "different facebook". Personally I hate that, but a lot of people have been doing it for many years.
In what way? Users/customers do not generally drive development. Indirect measurements of users do, such as measuring "engagement".
At best, what likely happened was A/B testing showed "what users want", which rarely and only by chance intersected with what users actually want, and instead showed over and over that socials media patterns (light and dark) hijacking attention drives engagement.
If people didn't want to use twitter, they wouldn't and it would be gone. But users do use it, and even the folks who tell me they're upset ABOUT Twitter, most choose to be there.
Whatever the reason they make that choice, at some point that's on them.
That's not the same thing as wanting to use the platform.
I can't imagine letting a service like that define things for me like that.
Yes, that's very clear. Everyone is super impressed with how free your thinking is.
However, you completely missed the point of my comment by interpreting my hyperbole so literally.
Like, LinkedIn only needs MAUs who are trying to sell something or looking for a job, they 100% don't need people to log in every day (as their ads business is only a small proportion of revenue).
Other users (almost everyone I know) absolutely loathe it. It is hands-down the worst service I have an account with, but it's also practically required to get a job if you don't have lucky personal connections. I was hoping TFA was actually about leaving as a user, that it might be inspiration for me to free myself.
But I think users just love / gravitate towards a more facebook style feed.
LinkedIn has slightly different style of spammer, but it's basically the end game for anything.