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Re:Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn by snowwrestler on Thursday June 11, 2020 @12:03PM (#23490247)
Did you choose to follow those people at some point? I get regular "recommendations" on who to follow on LinkedIn, including Gates, Nadella, and Branson, but I never take them. And I don't have any content in my feed from any of those folks.

All the content in my feed is from my connections or interactions by my connections. Of course there is plenty of vapid "thought-leader" content from them too.

Actually I've gotten some amusement from watching a few former colleagues overtly try the "LinkedIn thought leader" thing. Kind of funny to observe the (sometimes very large) gap between what they post and what I know they used to do in their day jobs.

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Re:Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn by felipemnoa on Thursday June 11, 2020 @03:17PM (#23492373)
>>Kind of funny to observe the (sometimes very large) gap between what they post and what I know they used to do in their day jobs

And hence the saying "Nobody is a prophet in their own land".

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Re:Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn by dghughes on Friday June 12, 2020 @02:53PM (#23502425)
>Did you choose to follow those people at some point?

Maybe one or two of them. But I don't even know who Guy Kawasaki is.

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