LinkedIn

TL; DR: It's a great place to post your resume and then never come back to again.

The site is free, and offers premium options you have to pay for monthly, such as adding larger photos, larger headers, and backgrounds to your profile; see which strangers that mean nothing to you have looked at your profile; e-mail people and claim a connection to such strangers; and similar useless ways to use a social network site. Even if you thought refining your search would come in handy, you can find more qualified people without spending as much money.

Don't expect the groups to be anywhere near as helpful as the premium options. You could have fun or show off skills with a larger photo, or e-mail people with similar interest and receive a friendly greeting. Don't expect either in most groups. The following aren't rare gems of insanity, but regular responses by people who claim to be CEO's, work in HR, and professors with Masters degrees:

'This is Godawful. Women in positions of authority or acting as leaders is the least believable thing I have ever heard of [he then inserted a five paragraph essay on how inferior women were in every aspect compared to men]'--Posted a few weeks after Women's Day.

'You have no right to continue stalking me! Stalk, stalk, stalk!'--a reply to 'please stop stalking me. I'm calling the police' after he threatened bodily harm on a thread and in another personal message to me.

[Permanent Ban for pointing out the difference between a writer and author was in the dictionary]

'I'm being totally professional. God hates gays and wants them to die'--a thread about positive spiritual messages in books.

Most of the rest of the posts are 'I agree', 'If it makes you think, you're trolling', 'I don't know', and usually 'You're and idiot [praise me]'. Most topics are 'I wrote three sentences and linked an article in a blog'.

Despite the check box one needs to click on that indicates you have read the group discussion guidelines about civility and acting professional, no group is moderated at all except against posts wondering why the moderator isn't doing their job, or, occasionally, citing sources against someone. E-mailing a moderator is a risk in and of itself; mods have threatened to ban people for asking for help. See the example of the man with an essay against women? He did that three times. All moderators said I was extremely rude for asking if they could tell him to calm down and two demanded I apologize.

There are good and even helpful people on the site, but it takes wallowing through a lot people who make you wonder why they haven't been fired or arrested yet.

The official statement of LinkedIn about such things is 'We put up guidelines. If people don't follow them stay off the internet'. Does this seem odd when the site is FOR showing the rest of the internet?

Roger Becker is a 46 yr old convicted felon, murderer & predator. He killed Dionicio Ordones in Tx on 9/30/99 & got convicted & his parole almost got yanked for violations & speeding tickets in 01. He's got many more felony arrests & is under investigation for unthinkable done to little girls. Ya don't wanna let your kids around him, he touches inappropriately & sends expensive customized gifts. Roger acts as victim to avoid accountability & gossips & slanders anyone stepping in to stop his abuse & tries getting people fired. He's the one fired all the time though & his current employer fixing to fire him for all victims of Roger reported. Roger lies to police, there's video proof & none believe him. He manipulates women & we all compare notes & my sis is gonna get away from him out of LDR at safe time. Roger has ed, can't keep hard on, cries in sex & bj, selfish in bed, the little girls he's sexually abusing said he's nasty, grey & bald according to their aunt & uncle Find Roger on disgusting sex sites, pay per meet sites & selling sob story of victim hood & ex cheating on him a decade ago when he's the cheater & carries std's b/c he's a loser ' has to take what he can get & pay for sex, no one fit, smart or of high value are gonna give Roger a chance, avoid the abusive narcissistic murderer like the plague he is, Roger looks in his 50's & got no assets, he upside down on his starter home in a rental community, owe for everything & owes for his big ugly rabbit teeth too. Roger hates himself deep down & all women do too & he's roasted in all our apps & groups & it is allll true ya can't do a thing about it old man Roge' HAHA www.linkedin. Com/in/rogerswheelhouse

I only give this two stars instead of one because it serves some people okay. This site is structured completely opposite to my needs and networking objectives. I dropped out of high school and self-started much of my work. I have a gradient between volunteer work and freelance nonprofit, specifically founding my own. I built a skill set in a holistic way, connecting with community and "the real world". This site does not serve innovators, self-starters or people who reject traditional systems.

It constantly spams me to "add my education", of which I specifically have none and on purpose.

The format is also tailored towards standard and almost stereotypical industry. It also blended together different jobs and activities I've done that don't connect with each other. This is the same problem I had with Facebook, it mixed all my friends up who ended up getting in arguments and being bitter once they realized how diverse my friends community is. The same goes for jobs. I'm NOT going to put some $#*! restaurant job next to the organization I founded and like hell I'm going to network with corporate people from that restaurant who actively made the workplace a living hell.

The site is set up against ethics in favor of a blind-eye networking approach. When I network, it's usually with people I actually care about and we have a sense of interconnected community, for a greater purpose. When people network on Linked In, it's to get to the next level of the suck-up game and climb over the people you're supposedly "colleagues" with to get to the top. I've had some great competition in my life, and LinkedIn brings out the most sickly worst competition. It really is a dog-eat-dog world there.

It's a corporate environment and misrepresents the little guy as if he's corporate. Many of the so-called charities that I would follow or connect with were organized antithetical to my beliefs and I would argue- against integrity. Corporatism is sickly and unhealthy, and when you get too deep into a system like that, you get influenced against seeing the company from a realistic viewpoint. This is why so many reasonable people end up excusing their company's sickly behavior in community.

This website also prevents you from reaching out to new people, therefore it would only reflect people I already knew and worked with- and I had much better connections with them in real life so this site was pointless.

On LinkedIn I have noticed face account that are trying get people to send them money such as charges and pictures copies from Google

This is a serous warning about LinkedIn.com.

We where paying $500+ dollars a month to have our Companies Staff on LinkedIn, and to use LinkedIn as a Professional Networking to other Aerospace and Spacescience people globally. We had 32 paid staff accounts on LinkedIn.

LinkedIn is owned and controlled by Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic, and these people are using linkedIn as there own personal spy agency and data base to track and harass anyone they see as a competitor or threat in the Aerospace Industry. In March/April 2013 LinkedIn changed its old privacy policy, so that now they OWN your listing, and you have no rights as a user on LinkedIn.

LinkedIn owners are now using people as their own personal cash cows and network of information on people. If you try to actually use LinkedIn to contact and network with Aerospace or Technology people and professionals, the LinkedIn agents hiding as regular accounts, will falsely accuse you of any sort of so called offenses, and then block your account, even if you are paying $500 a month or more, and will not give your money back.

LinkedIn is a high level big money scam, to control and manipulate information on people for nefarious and unprofessional agendas.

Anyone getting sucked into the LinkedIn scam will get burned. And if your dumb enough to get a paid LinkedIn account, linkedin will not provide the services they say they will provide, and in effect are committing felony theft of services and false advertising to deceive and defraud the public.

The Department of Commerce and FBI have received formal complaints in this regards, and spy and theft of service scams like this LinkedIn need to be shut down, and the public protected from these parasite blood suckers!

I am a Knight of Justice of the Sovereign Order of St. John. My grandparents and parents have been stationed as US diplomats in the former British sector of West Germany. I have a diplomatic passport myself. I currently live in London and I am a member of the British Conservative party.

My family's diplomatic identity is from a time during the Cold War when US American diplomats needed extra protection for their work, as West Germany was a conflict region. We received second identities to live a relatively normal civilian life. I can not change the name on my German passport as it is a diplomatic one. I filled a legal deed poll change of name in the UK to change all the details of my other documents. (I currently have no US documents available)

I built up my professional profile on Linkedin under my original birth name, for which I even have more than enough evidence and documentation, as an accountant, for which I have a degree including several fields of studies. I added my personal work, even included diplomatic letters. It started when I wanted to connect with members of an Israeli organisation, with members of the Knights of St, John as well as members of the Conservative party of the United Kingdom.

I can not think of anything more normal than wanting to connect with members of the same organisation than you are on a professional platform.

My account got restricted during the process of connecting. It still is restricted. Do you know how this looks when your Linkedin account gets restricted during the time of connecting with fellow party or organisational members? They will think that you are a fake and a liar.

Alone this damage has Linkedin already done to me, a Knight, Diplomat, member of the British Conservative party and other. This can easily be interpreted as character assassination.

I start seriously to believe that Linkedin is a job terror network and the reason why so many migrants receive positions within our economy. When analysing that Linkedin is a subsidiary of Microsoft and Microsoft having currently migrant CEO's is this not a wonder.

But it gets really a little too obvious when diplomats, Knights, members of the Conservative party and Israel lover have their account restricted during the time when wanting to connect to other members.

I have then searched for negative reviews and found that the majority of at least 80 % of reviews everywhere are extremely negative of Linkedin. While stating that their overall score is 4 out of 5 stary. This gives me reason to believe that Linkedin is a massive fake operation by corrupt and subverted government positions, artificially creating positive overall scores, lying with the numbers of the actual users as well as lying about the job opportunities.

For those who are tired or too mature for Facebook, this belongs to you

Useless site with useless information and I can not delete my account...

Really the only credible one. It's the new resume.