What is the point of LinkedIn?

So recruiters can share memes about how difficult it is to be a recruiter.

Pics of chicks duh

Its supposedly designed to keep you in contact with connections based on your fellow alumni and job experience.

It also serves as a job board.

But the problem is that most companies have their own in-house pool which they prefer.

Also the website has become too "socialized" in order to mimic facebook and other media.

I got my current job through a recruiter reaching out to me on LinkedIn. It's actually pretty great for my industry.

It is very useful to me. I sell commercial concrete to General Contractors and concrete subcontractors. A lot of people who work for those companies post about projects they were recently awarded. If I quoted a job to several GCs and/or subs I will know who got it without all of the traditional steps of finding out that info and I know who is getting a call that day or the next morning.

Also, I use it to get a preview of someone I am meeting in person for the first time. Where they went to college, what company they worked at before to see if we might know some of the same people, etc.. I can easily find common ground without it and still do most of the time buts it's nice to have a little background when you can get it.

I think it depends on what you do for a living. It is useful in construction sales for sure.

I'm trying to figure out how to use for a job board but it seems worthless for entry level jobs or if you don't already know anyone.

Butthole pleasures.

It's for admin assistants to post opinionated shite or for older, lower level men to post political shite. Eventually someone with a real job gets triggered, responds, and gets fired.

I couldn’t figure out the point. Ended up with too many weird people adding me (like a coworker of my BF’s ex wife who hates me, and a guy I briefly dated), so I deleted it.