From: legg@nospam.magma.ca   
      
   On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 04:36:44 -0700, Don Y   
    wrote:   
      
      
      
      
   >I can't comment on LinkedIn as no one that I know uses it.   
   >My understanding (?) is that it is a networking site -- a   
   >way to "get jobs".   
      
   You may be thinking of InDeed.   
      
   >   
   >Most of my colleagues have more than enough work without   
   >any sort of "advertising" or "job mining".  Makes you wonder   
   >what the folks using it are lacking...  (REAL contacts??)   
      
   Networking is just keeping track of co-workers and professional   
   acquaintances - but there's no real controls on spam.   
      
   It has groups, similar to Facebook, where an administrator can   
   keep things relatively clean. The longer running of these usually   
   has some commercial incentive for the admin.   
      
   20yrs ago it was pretty useful. These days ~ 'Power Electronic   
   Management' is a style of managment. Most groups are heavily   
   burdened with 'user-posted' advertizing.   
      
   Tapping into 20 year old threads (where all the good references   
   and articles were being discussed)in such a group is well-night   
   impossible.   
      
   Like Facebook, it is heavily dependent on your machines' RAM and   
   is unfriendly to non-google, non-chrome browsers. This may be   
   why Edge is having issues: it would serve MS right.   
      
   RL   
      
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