Re: Re: Collaborative Articles on LinkedIn - Thoughts?

[Roberta Hennessey <rahennessey -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Thank you so much for this Tony. Very enlightening.
Bobbi Hennessey

On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 10:35âAM Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> wrote:

> As if on cue, I saw this on LinkedIn today:
>
> Quote from Joseph Perry:
>
> LinkedIn laid off their entire content team and is now trying to trick you
> into doing their work for free because Microsoft over invested in AI. That
> is why you've been "invited to contribute to this collaborative article." I
> promise LinkedIn doesn't actually value your credentials. Don't give social
> media companies free labor.
>
>
> https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lousyhacker_linkedin-laid-off-their-entire-content-team-activity-7136813781573083136-Q1QD
>
> Wellâ maybe I wonât be so free with providing my content.
>
> -Tony
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 05:38 Nina <e -dot- dickinson -at- gmx -dot- net> wrote:
>
> >    Couldn't agree more that such platforms don't do it in 'altruistic
> > fashion'.
> >    It's always about 'them', they provide a service for making money
> > and/or collecting data to use that as a basis for providing other
> > (commercial) services.
> >
> >
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