{"id":12368,"date":"2012-06-12T10:07:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=12368"},"modified":"2012-06-12T10:07:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:07:43","slug":"what-is-linked-in-for-anybody-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/12\/what-is-linked-in-for-anybody-know\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Linked In for? Anybody know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last couple of years I&#8217;ve added contacts to Linked In with a certain amount of consideration.  In other words, I&#8217;ve added only links that are &#8220;real&#8221; in some sense; they are friends and friends of friends, and colleagues and colleagues of colleagues who&#8217;s name I recognized.  Then, yesterday, my password was published on the internet. That&#8217;s now been changed, but again, it is effort I&#8217;ve expended.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotten no benefit from being on Linked In. So far, I&#8217;ve spent time, and I&#8217;ve been at risk but with no reward.<\/p>\n<p>Why am I here and why should I stay?  Anybody know?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/oldflints\/723455312\/sizes\/o\/in\/photostream\/\">Linda Cronin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last couple of years I&#8217;ve added contacts to Linked In with a certain amount of consideration. In other words, I&#8217;ve added only links that are &#8220;real&#8221; in some sense; they are friends and friends of friends, and colleagues and colleagues of colleagues who&#8217;s name I recognized. Then, yesterday, my password was published on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/12\/what-is-linked-in-for-anybody-know\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is Linked In for? Anybody know?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-3du","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}