6 mo. ago • 92%

LinkedIn is the latest company to get in on gaming

www.theverge.com LinkedIn is the latest company to get in on gaming

Now, your boss can see your high score.

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LinkedIn games make as much sense as zoos on airplanes

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- I'm sick of these monkey fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!
  
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  I'm sick from these monkeys.... Covid24 the return of the sith..
  
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  You win the internet today
  
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- To be fair, airplanes feel like zoos.
  
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  Sometimes smell like them too
  
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- LinkedIn has been the Facebook you can us at work for a while. How games will change that? TBD
  
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  LinkedIn has been the Facebook you can us at work for a while
  
  So we agree it was already garbage! Lol
  
  Honestly I don't even get it, I have a LinkedIn account that I have updated twice (only when getting ready to change jobs)
  
  I only keep it because I have heard more than once that " an IT person without a LinkedIn profile is a red flag" which I find completely idiotic but the world we live in is idiotic
  
  As far as I know, none of the job offers I have received have actually been affected in anyway due to my LinkedIn profile... It has only served to get spam and lame short term contract offers (like I'm leaving my full time job for a 1 year "exiting" contract)
  
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- But a zoo on a airplane does make sense.
  
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- That sounds awesome.
  
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Just what I want from a platform designed for networking and job seeking: games.

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- It's pretty on the nose for the current job market though. It's all just games
  
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Cringe posts on LinkedIn soon about how games inspired them to be achievers at work.

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- It's already terrible with memes posts
  
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  Yeah, I don't understand why anyone posts there. LinkedIn is for finding jobs, not actually communicating. You just want to have a network so you have a better chance of having a connection with people who are hiring.
  
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The game: looking for a new job without your boss finding out

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- Boss: Why are you on LinkedIn?
  
  Me: I'm just checking up on my Farmville.
  
  Boss: Oh okay. Carry on.
  
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  Hmm…
  
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Can linkedin go under. Can musk buy LinkedIn?

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- MS is doing their level best
  
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- First order of business, shut down the linked in side and go all in on games.
  
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- It's owned by MS. Just to give you a view how important do they think it is, if you're on Windows press Ctrl+Win+Alt+Shift+L on your keyboard.
  
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  Clearly a keyboard shortcut designed for humans by an AI.
  
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Name: Brad Johnson
Title: Salesman
Achievements: Scores over 1 Million on Pinball FX

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What in the hell is this timeline, even. For real.

Not only are you a sucker for giving them all your personal contacts a la Facebook, but now they can get your gaming info as well? Please fuck off.

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Nice coincidence I deleted my LinkedIn account today.

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- Congratulations 🤝
  
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Because what LinkedIn really needed was Xbox ecosystem integration. /s

I like how they say "LinkedIn" is getting in on gaming when their parent company (Microsoft) fucking owns the god damned Xbox.

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Poor management

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So when are they adding the cringy Farmville-equivalent type games to it? Make sure to help your boss farm their crops or you might risk getting fired! :-)

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Ah the marvels of infinite growth and capitalism. Are we still allowed to say enshitification here?

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- I'd call that an actual improvement.
  
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Is this going to turn out to be one of those "last starfighter” situations, except it's about arranging lists of words rather than fighting aliens?

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