[GJim]

This.

This early behaviour made LinkedIn utterly toxic amongst the tech community in the early days. Nobody using them would be offered a job, as any applicant using LinkedIn would be demonstrating they are clueless (or worse, endorsed this behaviour).

Quite how LinkedIn managed to overcome this and have people trust them (!) I will never be able to understand.

[grajaganDev]

It was so bad that it turned off many people (even outside of tech) from joining social media sites altogether.

I held off from joining LI for years after that.