I’ve deleted LinkedIn for the second time. I originally did it back in 2015 (maybe even earlier, can’t remember the exact year) because I couldn’t stand all the recruiter emails asking me to relocate even though I had specific instructions for them to not email me about non-remote job opportunities. Then two years ago I had to look for a new client so I thought LinkedIn would help with that. It didn’t.
The existence of LinkedIn fascinates me because most people can’t stand it, yet they don’t have a problem with having a LinkedIn profile, which therefore perpetuates its existence. Well, I don’t want to be associated with a network like that, so I’ve deleted the profile again.
It’s not mandatory and I think there are better ways to meet new people than by sending a connection request on LinkedIn. Like Twitter, LinkedIn at its best is a wrapper around email that they somehow monetize. I don’t see a reason for having an email wrapper when it’s so easy to just send an email directly.
It’s a really corporate place and I was never interested in corporate jobs or big corporations. I always enjoyed working with small startups where I have massive impact and responsibility, where I wear a lot of different hats, where I was part of something small trying to take a piece of the market from someone big and sluggish.