LinkedIn is the latest company to get in on gaming

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LinkedIn games make as much sense as zoos on airplanes

LinkedIn has been the Facebook you can us at work for a while. How games will change that? TBD

LinkedIn has been the Facebook you can us at work for a while

So we agree it was already garbage! Lol

Honestly I don't even get it, I have a LinkedIn account that I have updated twice (only when getting ready to change jobs)

I only keep it because I have heard more than once that " an IT person without a LinkedIn profile is a red flag" which I find completely idiotic but the world we live in is idiotic

As far as I know, none of the job offers I have received have actually been affected in anyway due to my LinkedIn profile... It has only served to get spam and lame short term contract offers (like I'm leaving my full time job for a 1 year "exiting" contract)

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Just what I want from a platform designed for networking and job seeking: games.

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Cringe posts on LinkedIn soon about how games inspired them to be achievers at work.

It's already terrible with memes posts

Yeah, I don't understand why anyone posts there. LinkedIn is for finding jobs, not actually communicating. You just want to have a network so you have a better chance of having a connection with people who are hiring.

I can understand event announcements, my job applications are for foo widget builders, so let me know if Foo Widget Con is happening with hiring companies or Foo Widget User Group so we can all get together and share in our pain.

Outside of that, most posts are meaningless.

The game: looking for a new job without your boss finding out

Boss: Why are you on LinkedIn?

Me: I'm just checking up on my Farmville.

Boss: Oh okay. Carry on.

Can linkedin go under. Can musk buy LinkedIn?

First order of business, shut down the linked in side and go all in on games.

It's owned by MS. Just to give you a view how important do they think it is, if you're on Windows press Ctrl+Win+Alt+Shift+L on your keyboard.

Name: Brad Johnson
Title: Salesman
Achievements: Scores over 1 Million on Pinball FX

What in the hell is this timeline, even. For real.

Not only are you a sucker for giving them all your personal contacts a la Facebook, but now they can get your gaming info as well? Please fuck off.

Because what LinkedIn really needed was Xbox ecosystem integration. /s

I like how they say "LinkedIn" is getting in on gaming when their parent company (Microsoft) fucking owns the god damned Xbox.

So when are they adding the cringy Farmville-equivalent type games to it? Make sure to help your boss farm their crops or you might risk getting fired! :-)

Ah the marvels of infinite growth and capitalism. Are we still allowed to say enshitification here?

I'd call that an actual improvement.

Is this going to turn out to be one of those "last starfighter” situations, except it's about arranging lists of words rather than fighting aliens?