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sergiotapia on Feb 13, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stop Using LinkedIn

"The power of LinkedIn is in the trust it establishes."

I feel the complete opposite way. I've had people claim I know PHP on my profile when I've never used PHP in my life. That's endorse stuff is major baloney. How can you trust that when anybody can just click Endorse for whatever they want?

praneshp on Feb 13, 2015 [–]

Very true. I have endorsements in C++ from my auto insurance guy, which doesn't make any sense either.

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