28 Articles about using LinkedIn

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3 Brilliant LinkedIn Summaries That Will Inspire You to Update Yours Right Now - The Muse

4 Tips for Reaching out to Someone you admire on LinkedIn - The Muse

4 ways you should be using LinkedIn to take the next step in your career - Fast Company

Before you use the 'Open to Work' badge on LinkedIn, read this - Fast Company

Finding Freelance writing on LinkedIn - Twitter

How to Craft the Perfect LinkedIn Profile - (infographic)

How to Make Your LinkedIn Profile Stand Out - Entrepreneur

How to Promote Yourself on LinkedIn as a Writer: 7 Tips and Tools - MakeUseOf

How to use LinkedIn after being laid off - The Washington Post

How To Write A Bio For LinkedIn: Introduce Yourself With A Story - Forbers

How to Write an SEO-Enhanced LinkedIn Profile - SHRM

Job seekers: A 50-year-old social theory could be the key to your success on LinkedIn - Fast Company

LinkedIn Author Has Strategic Advice To Improve Your Profile - Forbes

LinkedIn expands its generative AI assistant to recruitment ads and writing profiles – Tech Crunch

The LinkedIn job scam is global. The hook is local - Rest of World

The LinkedIn Makeovers That Actually Get People Hired - Wall Street Journal

LinkedIn Profiles Vs. Resumes: What You Need To Know - Forbes

LinkedIn taps AI to make it easier for firms to find job candidates – Reuters

LinkedIn’s ‘career break’ feature - Washington Post

LinkedIn’s job-matching AI was biased. The company’s solution? More AI - MIT Tech Review

LinkedIn's new feature offers people 13 ways to explain their career gap - Business Insider

A Massive LinkedIn Study Reveals Who Actually Helps You Get That Job - Scientific American

The Perfect Professional Headshot is worth $1000, and maybe even a job - WSJ

This is what an A+ LinkedIn Summary Looks like - GirlBoss

What Really Works On LinkedIn? Answers From The Experts - Buffer

Why are women gender-swapping on LinkedIn? - The Washington Post

Your LinkedIn network’s huge! Here’s why that’s a red flag - SmartBrief

Your LinkedIn Profile Probably Features These 5 Mistakes - Entrepreneur

“Social media is populist and polarizing; AI may be the opposite"

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While different AI platforms behave in subtly different ways, all of them nudge people away from the most extreme positions and towards more moderate and expert-aligned stances. This remains true after accounting for partisan differences in AI platform usage and chatbots’ sycophantic tendencies. -John Burn-Murdoch, chief data reporter for the Financial Times

There’s a tiger over there! (according to my phone)

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“Everybody is fighting for your attention, so your only real defense is to make it so that those stimuli don’t come in the door,” says Boston University cognitive neuroscientist David Somers. The idea that your technology should alert you when it thinks you should pay attention is relatively new, and, frankly, it’s a big step backward. You’re letting the bushes rustle nonstop, and telling yourself there’s a tiger over there.

“It’s so important that we define where we want to go as opposed to letting technology drive us and we’re just hanging on for dear life,” says author Amy Blankson, who works in the field of positive psychology, specifically on maximizing happiness.

Still, everyone gets a buzz from this high-octane news environment. Literally. Every notification, every tweet, every beep and buzz releases dopamine and other neurochemicals, providing a moment’s elation. As with any drug, your brain gets used to it. Perhaps even craves it.  

Reclaim control of what you read.

Emily Dreyfuss, Wired

Looking Down

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A small but detailed 2015 study of young adults found that participants were using their phones five hours a day, at 85 separate times. Most of these interactions were for less than 30 seconds, but they add up. Just as revealing: The users weren’t fully aware of how addicted they were. They thought they picked up their phones half as much as they actually did. Whether they were aware of it or not, a new technology had seized control of around one-third of these young adults’ waking hours.

Just look around you—at the people crouched over their phones as they walk the streets, or drive their cars, or walk their dogs, or play with their children. Observe yourself in line for coffee, or in a quick work break, or driving, or even just going to the bathroom. Visit an airport and see the sea of craned necks and dead eyes. We have gone from looking up and around to constantly looking down.

Andrew Sullivan, I used to Be a Human Being

The Web Almost Killed Me

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For a decade and a half, I’d been a web obsessive, publishing blog posts multiple times a day, seven days a week, and ultimately corralling a team that curated the web every 20 minutes during peak hours. Each morning began with a full immersion in the stream of internet consciousness and news, jumping from site to site, tweet to tweet, breaking news story to hottest take, scanning countless images and videos, catching up with multiple memes. Throughout the day, I’d cough up an insight or an argument or a joke about what had just occurred or what was happening right now. My brain had never been so occupied so insistently by so many different subjects and in so public a way for so long.  If you had to reinvent yourself as a writer in the internet age, I reassured myself, then I was ahead of the curve. The problem was that I hadn’t been able to reinvent myself as a human being.

I realized I had been engaging—like most addicts—in a form of denial. I’d long treated my online life as a supplement to my real life. But then I began to realize, as my health and happiness deteriorated, that this was not a both-and kind of situation. It was either-or. Every hour I spent online was not spent in the physical world.

Andrew Sullivan, I used to Be a Human Being

Tech created a global village — and puts us at each other’s throats

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As we get additional information about others, we place greater stress on the ways those people differ from us than on the ways they resemble us, and this inclination to emphasize dissimilarities over similarities strengthens as the amount of information accumulates. On average, we like strangers best when we know the least about them.

The effect intensifies in the virtual world, where everyone is in everyone else’s business. Social networks like Facebook and messaging apps like Snapchat encourage constant self-disclosure. Because status is measured quantitatively online, in numbers of followers, friends, and likes, people are rewarded for broadcasting endless details about their lives and thoughts through messages and photographs. To shut up, even briefly, is to disappear. One study found that people share four times as much information about themselves when they converse through computers as when they talk in person.

Progress toward a more amicable world will require not technological magic but concrete, painstaking, and altogether human measures: negotiation and compromise, a renewed emphasis on civics and reasoned debate, a citizenry able to appreciate contrary perspectives. At a personal level, we may need less self-expression and more self-examination.

Technology is an amplifier. It magnifies our best traits, and it magnifies our worst.

Nicholas Carr writing in the Boston Globe

16 Articles about Social Media & AI

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Are you smarter than a pigeon?

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In the 1950s, Skinner began putting the birds in a box and training them to peck on a piece of plastic whenever they wanted food. Then the Harvard psychology researcher rigged the system so that not every peck would yield a tasty treat. It became random — a reward every three pecks, then five pecks, then two pecks. 

The pigeons went crazy and began pecking compulsively for hours on end.

Fast forward six decades. We have become the pigeons pecking at our iPhones, scrolling through news feeds, swiping left/right on Tinder for hours, the uncertainty of what we might find keeping us obsessed by design.

In the modern economy of tablets and apps, our attention has become the most valuable commodity. Tech companies have armies of behavioral researchers whose sole job is to apply principles like Skinner’s variable rewards to grab and hold our focus as often and long as possible.

Market research shows the average user touches their cellphone 2,617 times a day.

William Wan in the Washington Post 

In search of the digital facelift

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Unsurprisingly, a large body of research shows that viewing idealised or retouched images adds to the dissatisfaction that many people already feel towards their body. Research by Kristen Harrison, a media psychologist at the University of Michigan, shows that even disclosing that celebrity and advertising images are retouched makes many of us feel worse about ourselves. Becoming more aware of what others edit may heighten our awareness of our own supposed flaws. That may encourage us to spend longer using digital tools to repair them. And once you start it’s hard to stop. I felt better about posting my first FaceTuned photo than I would have if I hadn’t edited it. And since we’re more inclined to post images of ourselves that we like, says Harrison, “it’s self-sustaining because you want to do it again and again and again.” Beauty is attainable for all. Just don’t expect it to be more than a pixel deep. 

Amy Odell writing in 1843 magazine