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What are you thoughts about Linkedin? Personally, I find it to be a bit ridiculous. I don't find any of its features enjoyable. When people attempt to connect with me, they always want to know if I can find them a job. Typically these are people who I did not enjoy working with to begin with.
For me, LinkedIn is just a way to keep in touch with previous employers or co-workers. I just like knowing where people work in case I need to contact them for a reference or possibly a job. So, yes people are using it to find a job which is what I think one of the reasons for it is.
I've also had people reach out to me for a job, and if they were nice to me and I thought they were good workers, I helped them. If they were stuck-up or players, I ignored their requests.
I like it better than Facebook, since on FB I have to hear about what people are doing on vacations, etc.
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I don't see it as useful in finding a job. Any contacts from others about jobs are in areas far from me and not places where I would want to move. I do find it to be very beneficial in discussions with people in the various groups that I belong to, sharing tips on various aspects of the field and specific software being used.
If you utilize that little search feature up there, you'll find 72 threads on it in this forum alone. Here is a recent one with discussion in it this month to get you started:
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