My friend, Om Malik, has written a personal rant about LinkedIn, where he concludes that between the lack of utility, email spam and asocial nature of what is positioned as a "business social network," he's had enough, and shut down his account.
First off, I totally agree with everything Om says. I hate the spam. I resent the fact that once it becomes clear that a contact is becoming a spammer, that LinkedIn makes it difficult to threshold them.
And of course, technologically, LinkedIn is web 1.0 in terms of clunk. Just a cruddy, convoluted user experience.
Playing devil’s advocate, though, it must be serving a tangible need for a lot of users to be as successful as it is, as it is a very poor service..that I use with regularity. :-)
Put another way, LinkedIn is a case of sucking so bad, that you must be doing **something** right.
Agree? Disagree? Are there other services that fall into this bucket for you?
