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12-30-2014, 09:38 AM | #31 |
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I know LinkedIn is supposed to be good, and I've been on it for around a decade. But in my experience, it's just a way for sales people to contact me. I haven't seen any benefit.
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12-30-2014, 09:38 AM | #32 |
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But I your day, anyone who managed to graduate would snag some sort of job. The only competition was to see how far up the corporate ladder you could start from.
Not no mo... without specific skills, credits, and connections, you could be making a tent to survive, from your sheepskin these days. I wonder why people send me Linked-In invites, when they know I'm happily retired. Must be the same reason they offered me sex when I was happily married... then both stopped at the same time.
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12-30-2014, 11:17 AM | #33 |
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I believe I have 3 connections...
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12-30-2014, 03:31 PM | #34 |
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I have a bunch of LinkedIn connections. It's now pushed heavily in grad school and as part of work due to the groups.
The groups are a lot better than what most web-based boards have become. I just don't have time for social media outlets these days between family, school, and work. There was a time I'd have the Cellar on in the background at work, but that was many years ago. |
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12-30-2014, 04:05 PM | #37 |
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Clodfobble,
I used to have a lot more time for it. Really. This used to be one of my big time-wasters. I used to telnet into the Waffle BBS-based predecessor of this place in the mid-90's. I used DDial for a number of years, and I posted on Usenet (yay comp.sys.cbm). I also used to IRC a lot. Now I'm down to Facebook, LinkedIn, and here. Here is because I started calling it over 22 years ago. Facebook is because that's where pictures of my children and all of my friends' children are posted, and because that's where everyone else is at. LinkedIn is entirely professional. Most of the professional organizations I belong to have LinkedIn groups, and those have information I need in them. Facebook is the lowest common denominator. Everyone is there. More adventurous people have Ello, Google+, or the other networks. Like I said, I can get the info I need at a glance and be on my way . |
01-01-2015, 10:13 AM | #38 |
Read? I only know how to write.
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Reports have it that China has almost completed the Great Firewall of China. FaceBook, Gmail, and virtually everything else (except LinkedIn) have been banned. Based in nothing more from our Chinese Celllar Dwellers, I suspect The Cellar was also banned a few years ago.
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01-01-2015, 10:39 AM | #39 |
To shreds, you say?
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And the rest of your synapses, what became of them?
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01-01-2015, 11:43 AM | #40 |
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Sadly Synapsed.
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01-01-2015, 04:12 PM | #41 |
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Are fried.
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