What a day! First day complete at my new job and it was a hectic one, lucky I still have time to do these updates (of course I do, I need to graduate university this year). Today I want to share my thoughts on the online media platform of LinkedIn and why I’m skeptical…

LinkedIn was coined as the Facebook for business, a way of connecting with professionals and connections as colleagues and collaborators rather than Facebook’s ‘friends’ title. I’ve been on LinkedIn since the start of 2013 when we were forced to join it in Year 12, it was a way of giving us real world experience in an industry (don’t ask me how or why). LinkedIn has always been something that I’ve only ever put effort into once or twice and then maintain when needed to (for example, if I move jobs, graduate or do something else business related). In reality, I feel as though LinkedIn is a little bit of a ‘flop’ in terms of it’s success and presence within being a front-runner of the social media world. I check LinkedIn, on average, about once a week – which is more than enough.

The features of LinkedIn that I like are:

• Connecting with people who you’ve worked with and keeping up to date with their current employment
• Being able to display yourself, your certificates, employment history and ‘show-off’ a little
• Pick and choose who you connect with
• The ability to see who’s looked at your profile and getting statistics on how many people have looked at your profile, where they’re from and where they work

The features I don’t particularly like about LinkedIn are:

• The fact that you may know someone, but can’t connect because they’re not in your network
• When you stalk someone, they know you’ve snooped onto their profile (eeeek!)
• To get full access to everything on LinkedIn, you need to get LinkedIn Pro (a paid version of the regular website)
• The interface and using LinkedIn really isn’t that easy, there’s a lot of glitches and over all it isn’t as polished as big ticket platforms such as Facebook or Twitter.