Am I the only person on earth not having a LinkedIn account?
Please tell me I am not alone.

I shut mine down years ago

I use it, thanks to it I never had to search for a job. Annoying but handy network. I have a lot of recommendations.

I haven't updated mine in over 10 years.

Back then, LinkedIn was the only 'social network' allowed at work. Facebook, etc were all blocked at the firewall. Any+all attempts to access blocked social networks were logged and reported to supervisors and managers. Luckily devRant wasn't flagged as a 'social network'. Whew!

Even then, LinkedIn traffic/posts were monitored and if you, for example, updated a job skill, managers questioned if you were updating your skills to be more attractive to other employers.

The catch 22 was they (upper-mgmt) wanted more LinkedIn activity to make us more 'attractive' for LinkedIn's searches, but didn't want to look too attractive for head hunters to make job offers to devs/DBAs (which did occur).

All that changed when the owner+CEO started getting requests from other CEOs asking why he wasn't on the socials. When 99% of the employees were on their phones anyway at these sites, it was dumb to take system resources to restrict it.

Depending on your situation you might be missing out.

I got my current job due to a recruiter finding me there - mostly because I had listed experience with a relatively niche technology. So it doesn't get in the way when I don't want it to, but could be useful when I need it.

When they started pushing the woke, and all I got was spam. I deleted my account. Still get fucking spam from those assholes at work. Some fuck on there saw where I worked and guessed my email. It only happened after I updated my current work location.

I like seeing the recruiters message me even tho I never reply

I was one of the early Facebook people because my best friend for some reason cared about it, but she disappeared like a decade ago and after college I didn't have a use for Facebook (comp sci used it to coordinate group projects) so I ended up deleting it. I don't belong on such places, it's too "normal" and I'm too spicy and won't play pretend

I got informational FOMO though. I'll never say yes but I still wanna know what's out there so I like it when I get emailed

@PaperTrail damn they sound needy

a place I worked for would harass me if I didn't post LinkedIn stuff about their company. couldn't stand it. felt so creepy. they similarly didn't even want the clients I was building software for to even know my name. thanks, jerks

You're not alone.

Sadly, I have one.

I use it for sexual predatory activities

you aren't

You're !alone.

Had one for one maybe two months, then deleted it.

It was well over a decade ago.

@kanyewest dude! you still alive?!

@Demolishun I'm back BABY :D