[colinbartlett]

I had a LinkedIn account ages ago but found it useless and chock full of recruiter spam. It was the first of all my social networks to go.

I am always astonished when I hear phrases like "it's required". Really? By whom? I'm glad to hear there are other people out there who don't have it, because all I hear about is the other side: People bemoaning LinkedIn's existence but parroting this idea that their professional career would be all but ruined without it. I just cannot understand this, but I always feel like I must be naive or living in a tech bubble, or just outside the mainstream.

Do people really hurt their job prospects without LinkedIn? (Or did they when this was written in 2013?)

[LargeCompanies]

We're u getting 100s a week?

I don't understand fellow coders who view recruiters as a nuisance when u can use them to get a way better deal on your next gig.

With my LinkedIn I am vague re: where I currently work and provide them all with my spam contact info(spam email and spam google voice number that is a voicemail box which messages go to my email).

Maybe it's the volume of recruiters? I get ten a week and enjoy seeing what they can do for me.

[bonzini]

I'm getting maybe one a month, but I specified clearly that I'm not looking for career opportunities. Either it's from always the same companies (Amazon and ARM are 80% of it) that won't let me work from home or it's completely outside my domain (web stuff---good companies to work for, but I work on the kernel not on web back-ends).

I did apply for my current job through LinkedIn, that's the only reason why I haven't deleted the profile. That said it was my first job, seven years after I would be able to find another job just through email if I needed one.