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LinkedIn tells me I have so many (ex) co-workers that play these games and I always think about the collective time wasted by all those people and close LinkedIn in disgust.

I started monitoring LinkedIn for assignments and networking opportunities. But it's just FaceBook with more AI cringe. I don't know what I hope to find anymore when I open it out of habit.

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The market is ripe for a professional network that relies on invite only web of trust to displace the trash that is linkedin.

And once that exists, it will transition into the same thing LinkedIn did seeing how that's exactly what LinkedIn did

If you run it as a for profit entity looking to make money then yes it would. The invite-only system prevents a lot of intentional abuse.

I hadn't logged in to LinkedIn for about 4 years until recently and while I'd seen/heard about the insane content that people posted, what surprised me was the stuff like puzzle games. What is this, 2000s era office worker nostalgia for solitaire on the pc?

I still play Solitaire on my computer sometimes ;-p

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think spending two minutes a day on a logic puzzle is a significant source of wasted time. Honestly, I think interacting with LinkedIn comments after playing Queens is often a much bigger waste of time.

Nobody on Linkedin is in a position to criticize how others spend their time.

Is that where the downvotes come from? People feeling criticized? If so, please criticize me. I feel weak spending time on LinkedIn or on my smartphone for that matter. I’m disgusted by my weakness when I see my weekly iOS screentime report. The struggle is real, help me make myself a better human. Criticize me.

Well if you're being serious and truly feel bad about yourself for a habit it would be better to talk to a friend, family member, or therapist to get support for changing the habit. Linkedin is worthless but no one should be made to feel bad for using a web site or for playing games.

I think you should. We make people feel bad for fleeing into drugs right? For gambling? We tell our kids it's bad.

But it's ok to get the same hits from a website that does everything in its power to keep your eyeballs glued to it? Like a slotmachine keeps you pulling that lever? Like heroine keeps you hunting for that next hit?

We're better off without it. We're better off telling each other it's bad.

You can recognize a bad behavior but berating someone or yourself for it isn't the best foundation for making positive change.

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