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U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says

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1293 points rmason | 6 comments | 06 Mar 19 20:30 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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peteretep ◴[07 Mar 19 05:44 UTC] No.19325816[source]▶
By far the biggest factor that had me stopping checking Facebook, and indeed LinkedIn, is number of utterly fictitious notifications they generate. There was a time a few years back when that red dot made me drop everything to check FB, but these days it’ll be some completely bullshit message they’ve made a notification out of. Feels like they got greedy for my attention and killed the golden goose there. I check it about once a day now, and in the browser not the app. If the notifications were still meaningful I’d probably still have the app and all the metadata that sent them.
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thatoneuser ◴[07 Mar 19 06:16 UTC] No.19325928[source]▶
Dear God I installed LinkedIn a couple months back and their endless bs notifications made me realize that I don't need it. It doesn't give me anything. Why is it sending me 2-3 notifications a day when I have 5 friends who's profiles arent even actively used?

If it did something useful, like find me clients for the work I do then sure - I'll give them my attention. He'll, I'll pay good money for that! But I don't give a flying fuck thaty friend just graduated or a colleague got some award. I don't give a fuck and I'm sure as fuck not gonna play this game where we all pretend theirs any value in these things that email didn't accomplish 10 years ago.

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1. seandhi ◴[07 Mar 19 13:08 UTC] No.19327672[source]▶
I have made hundreds of thousands of dollars through people I have met on LinkedIn, and I continue to make money through them. In business, networking is key. It’s not going to find you clients on its own, but it definitely aids in that process if you use it to network or prospect.
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2. thatoneuser ◴[07 Mar 19 23:45 UTC] No.19333814[source]▶
Personally it's never seemed like a valuable resource in that regard to me. How do you go about this and how much success do you see?
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3. seandhi ◴[08 Mar 19 12:50 UTC] No.19337061[source]▶
It’s mostly passive, to be honest. About 20-30 recruiters reach out daily, so I typically tell them that I’m only willing to work remote contracts (if I’m not looking for something full time) with a bill rate of $125 / hour or more. It only takes one out of a hundred to come back with an opportunity that brings in 20-25k per month for six plus months that I can do in addition to my day job to make the effort well worth it.

There’s so much work out there - let recruiters find it for you and be super selective if you already have income. After a while, repeat business will allow you to raise your bill rates. A motivated engineer willing to put in the work can pull in $300-$400k per year, even in middle America, without trying to source work for themselves.

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4. clocksp33d ◴[10 Mar 19 02:53 UTC] No.19349884{3}[source]▶
out of curiosity, what work do you do remotely?
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5. seandhi ◴[10 Mar 19 15:49 UTC] No.19352440{4}[source]▶
Nowadays, mostly Elixir, Ruby, and React development.
6. thatoneuser ◴[15 Mar 19 09:48 UTC] No.19398123{3}[source]▶
Thanks a lot for the tip. Guess I'll have to try it that way and see.