The LinkedIn experiment

If you are an engineer you probably don’t see much use from LinkedIn as a service. It is full of recruiters, who can be very annoying from time to time. You can choose to link people you have worked with, went to school with, or know from one source or another. Aside from this fact, I didn’t see that much use in LinkedIn. So I decided to run a small experiment. No, I won’t give them access to my email or something stupid like that, but I’ll do my best to use the site as it was intended to.

I’m not really hoping to gain anything from it, aside from maybe a new connection or two. I know I’ll get spammed like there is no tomorrow, and that was one of the reasons I killed my profile a couple of years ago. But this time I mean business.

I’ll do my best to post updates, link interesting articles, fill my profile with everything I can, and even leave a review or two. I’ve already started doing some of those things, and I’ll follow the plan at least till fall.

As I’ve previously mentioned, I don’t want anything. I’m not looking forward to getting spammed by recruiters, and I probably won’t be looking for new projects soon. I just want to see what can be done with it. I’m always open to finding new acquaintances and similar minded people. I was also considering joining (or starting) a mastermind group, and maybe LinkedIn can provide some help with that.

If I don’t get anything out of this small experiment, and I sincerely doubt that I won’t, I believe it will be a small amount of time well spent. I’ll surely write a post about my results in a couple of months.