Linked-itches

What do you get when you cross LinkedIn? with Glitches?

I think that LinkedIn? is growing faster than it can even keep up with. My hypothesis of this is that when there is a glitch, it doesn't usually get fixed until there is a radical change to everything. It would not make sense to fix the problem. If I was the Grand Poobah, and someone came to me to say "uh-oh, we have a problem" my answer wouldn't be "fix it." My response would be...

Create a better and newer version instead of spending the money to fix something that is already obsolete.

I had gone to a busy Apple? store to complain that on my I-phone I couldn't share any photos from my library to LinkedIn?. A few smart devices were then tested in the store and experienced the same glitch. This goes to show that it is hard to run into 'active' users, well at least amongst Apple? Creative people. The employees pointed out, very nicely, without seeming to just pass the buck, that it was a problem on the part of LinkedIn?.  I agreed that they were, likely correct, but if the CEO of Apple? couldn't pick up the phone and talk to the CEO of LinkedIn? to say  "hey buddy...," that Apple? would have some users, like me, that would be upset about it. 

My phone was literally the messenger of bad news; by virtue of this I blamed Apple?

Coincidence (or was it?)

The next day a completely new version, at the end of 2015, of LinkedIn for the IPhone? came out. LinkedIn? had completely removed the option out of the IPhone? and put the needed linking capability completely within the LinkedIn? system. Hallelujah.

It is my theory that some of the glitches or odd situations are here by design. One of them, I read about in someone's post; it may have been this one by Itai Leshem,

Are LinkedIn’s NASDAQ disclosed engagement numbers disingenuous?

The gist of it is: if someone goes to your post and scans down the page, past the end of your post, thus too far, they automatically register a view for whatever 'Influencer' happens to be next.

If it is me, about 1 in a hundred times something catches my attention long enough for me to go back and read a little. So if you are talking 100,000,000 active users, and you assume everyone is exactly like me, that means 1,000,000 of those extra articles will be at least partially read.

Rather than have everyone trying to calculate the odds and designs, mathematically or otherwise, take into account that there is probably not one person that works for LinkedIn? that knows 100% of what is going on. I imagine that LinkedIn? has a many visionaries collaborating with teams. 

Just give up. (idea for a new slogan)

As long as we are sharing hunches on how things work, I have already discovered several emergent uses, at early stages, that I would guess that a handful of people had initially figured out. I am supposing that these unplanned properties can sometimes pose problems and therefore could be regarded as design flaws for LinkedIn?. They give us, the end user, power over things that perhaps we 'should not' have control over; regardless, there is always a way to spin.

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