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Is it time to say goodbye to LinkedIn?

article published on 20 June, 2011

LinkedIn, the professional social network that has seen strong growth in the past few years might have its first legitimate competitor. BranchOut, an app on Facebook that does everything that LinkedIn does, saw its userbase jump from 32,000 to just over 900,000 (and growing) in the last week, following the addition of job listings on the front page. The app originally launched in ... [ read the full article ]

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LinkedIn is fine, but another organization deriving money for closed networking. Just another "club". Which in turn suffers from leeches who surface with an entry fee & the dialog to annoy the proper business people. It also borderlines of another elitist organization and intimidates those who would be consumers accordingly.

Granted, it certainly beats having to overcome Gucci, Patek & Dolce Gabbana, but a face/face encounters make much better networking sales than any typewritten banter given the internet stigma based correspondence. But no one of any business account is going to use the free account and obviously will 'not' use their own money to pay for an account anyway. Then there is a self imposed stigma within a posh environment that feels anything following a 'commoner's' lifestyle is unfitting; thus making it completely unsuitable for their use anyway.

I liked it's original concept as well, but then later thought it out and stopped using it as well.
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