De-LinkIn

While I've used LinkedIn for some time - and even found some new clients through it - I have been quite frustrated with it over the last few months.

I belong to a number of special interest groups, mostly for game localisation, and they have gone from having conversations which are not directly relevant to me but interesting and on the theme of the group to being full of posts trying to sell iPhone and Android programming courses, people promoting themselves and barely literate people asking how to sell their big game idea. I used to read the digests, now after weeks of mostly skimming and deleting them I've unsubscribed from the digests of all but one group.

It's a shame, as I've never found anything as good as LinkedIn, but it's not living up to its promise of being a professional networking site - at least not for the groups I'm in.