[bityard]

I blocked all email from linkedin on my mail server back in 2005 or so when they were relentlessly spamming _every_ email address they could find. I still have them blocked. I never bothered to create a linkedin account because from what I hear, 99.9% of the content is inane self-promotion and a never ending stream of begging from low-quality recruiters with low-quality offers.

100% of all the jobs I've had in my two-decades-long technology career have been from my real, in-person social network. "Hey bityard, I work at this cool place and think you should too."

[aidenn0]

Oh man that was terrible. I graduated in late 2004, got a job in 2005 and I literally got 10 e-mails from linked in per week to all of my e-mail addresses.

It's why, to this day, I do not have a linked in profile. Obviously if my family were starving I'd do what it takes to get a job, but given that programming jobs are fairly easy to find, I am not signing up.