I despise LinkedIn and cannot wait for its demise. Who in the world decided that "we" "should" or "must" have a LinkedIn? Sure, it used to be cool, but now it's way past the prime and is on the same trajectory as Myspace, Yahoo!, Facebook, etc. and so forth. Have I found work on LinkedIn? Yes, at times. But nowadays it is a wasteland and I am way better off talking directly with actual contacts, using old-school methods, and directly applying. Heck, my best job ever at a patent law firm was posted on Craigslist! It's not that LinkedIn is inherently evil (?). But with the politicization, stressful sidebar articles and posts with half-baked opinions about the economy (even in great times), and class warfare, it is just super annoying. Fake profiles and jobs, ghosting by 95% of recruiters *who contacted me first*, and the general soul-less and slimy, dirty feelings it gives me caused me to deactivate a long time ago. It is time for genuine job posters and seekers to join the revolution against the scammy, scummy cesspool that is LinkedIn.