- Endorsements. They serve no purpose other than "look I am so cool" and for recruiter to find you by keywords that does not make much sense. Plus I have no interest in getting endorsed by my uncle for something he has no clue about.
- Groups: These end up being nothing but recruiter spam.
- Stop the spam of "Please join linkedin premium trial for 30 days". I get this email every other week. If I am interested, I would have joined by now. Don't you get it.
- And the classic one. It is ok for you to spam my gmail contacts but I cannot even send a group email to all my connections at once (you have a stupid cap)? One use case is that during the Christmas/new Year time, I like to send a note to all my contacts saying hi. Yes not very pesonalized but for me the whole point of linkedin is to stay in touch with my professional connections. Guess what ? You limit the number of connections I can send a note to in one message. really ?
I removed mine 3 years ago and I never once regretted it.
You can tell endorsements are mostly for LinkedIn's benefit when you notice they don't even expose them in their API.
So its not ok for LinkedIn to spam you but its ok for you to spam all your contacts with a mass holiday greeting to "stay in touch"? Ok.
"Woe is me: I have to spend a few minutes deleting emails from people trying to hire me into well-paying professional jobs."
I never accept any endorsements and I think some person actually removed me off his contact list because:
a) I didn't accept his endorsement.
b) Didn't endorse him in return (people seem to expect this?)
They make sense for a professional networking site, but they have to be guided towards relevance.
I feel like if a scrappy startup had done it, it'd be innovative, but with LI, well, the reaction was not that great.
The joy and excitement of real-life networking stems from meeting someone, recognizing that you share an interest or skillset, and connecting on the basis of that skill or interest.
For example, if I discuss JavaScript w/ a developer at a networking event, I keep him or her in mind for my next JS project. With in-person networking, I know not only who is in my network, but how and why they might want to collaborate.
By allowing for a meaningless, generic prompt, LinkedIn strips the excitement out of networking. It makes the game about quantity more than quality. Users end up with broader networks, but they fail to understand the meaning or potential of those connections.
It would be rude not to accept.
P.S. Then of course they get an amusing email every time I update my Headline
Frankly I thought it was a pretty shocking product to launch, for all the predicable reasons it was panned, until I contrived a more charitable explanation: LinkedIn management is willing to greenlight goofy "20%-style" projects by the engineers.
[Podcast: Understanding the Dangers of LinkedIn Intro] http://www.securityweek.com/podcast-understanding-dangers-li...
- Apple told them they had better stop
- Adoption was lackluster
- The privacy complaints overwhelmed any benefit
(or all three)
Not that many people care/are aware about the privacy/security issues at stake.
It was too much of a niche thing (i.e. not for iphone's "average" users) and from a big enough player that Apple wouldn't protest.
But it was a complicated and long process to install/configure it. I doubt many non-geeks bothered. So it probably never got any traction beyond a few thousand users. Not worth keeping around at Linkedin's scale.
Send your mail to them to let them rewrite the html to insert LinkedIn information within the message.
Intro shows you LinkedIn profiles in your iPhone Mail app.
http://blog.linkedin.com/2013/10/23/announcing-linkedin-intr...
and the blog post announcing it: https://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-intro-doing...