Microsoft's LinkedIn is Losing Money, Traffic, and Hope; Now It Wants to Sell Its Users' Lifeblood (and Data)
Skype, which Microsoft took over at around the same time (as it had fallen behind in social control media) is now dead. LinkedIn is next. Then GitHub, which already got divested and neglected; both will be mothballed inwards [1, 2].
Skype died some months ago. Its Web site is now estimated to have even less traffic than phoronix.com. Skype is in effect an ashtray.
Is LinkedIn next? Probably.
Not only does LinkedIn have many waves of layoffs (as confirmed by WARN notices). It shuts down offices.
LinkedIn never caught up with the likes of Facebook and it predates TikTok.
LinkedIn got reduced to little but an online "CV site". And watch what Microsoft does next:
Thankfully I never fed personal data into that site, even when the site was very young (my profile had pretty much nothing in it; I didn't add anything and haven't updated anything since 2006).
Let this be a reminder of what social control media really is about. Social graph-building spyware. A Microsoft-controlled social control network ("media") is even worse than the average. █