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jrm4today at 3:38 PM3 repliesview on HN

I know I'm old, but I now find LinkedIn to be my favorite social media site, and I'll explain why.

Skin in the game. Yes, it's full of fluffy sounding things, but with a little patience and reading between lines, it's extremely valuable and here's why:

Overwhelmingly most of the time -- when someone posts anything there -- it has the potential to directly quickly improve, or more importantly destroy, their own LIVELIHOOD. It feels like the opposite, but making the choice to post there is a huge risk.

Now, that might come with fluff, of course -- but in a way you could reasonably argue it is the REALEST social media site of them all.


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kmijyiyxfbklaotoday at 7:21 PM

Well if that gets us LinkedIn, we should move as far away from that as possible, and not listen to the people who want real names everywhere.

podgorniytoday at 4:16 PM

> destroy, their own LIVELIHOOD

Do you have examples of such occasions when the linkedin post was actually the cause?

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adi_pradhantoday at 3:40 PM

LOL you've nailed LinkedinSpeak here

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