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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Is LinkedIn...Cool Now?

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History, Technology, Society & Culture

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

As Twitt—sorry, X—continues to go through tumult, an unlikely, long-time player is emerging as the last acceptable place to post.


Guest: Sarah Frier, tech editor at Bloomberg Businessweek.


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0:00.0

I made you think you was real.

0:02.0

My name is Caden Sinclair.

0:04.0

Some people call us American royalty.

0:06.0

We were Liars.

0:08.0

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0:10.0

We were happy. We wanted for nothing.

0:12.0

Based on the best-selling novel.

0:15.0

Something terrible happened last summer,

0:17.0

and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.

0:20.0

No one in my family will tell me.

0:22.7

When you're left for dead, you want answers.

0:25.2

We were liars.

0:26.3

New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.

0:33.8

If I were to tell you that the social network LinkedIn is cool now, what do you think you'd say?

0:43.1

I think LinkedIn has to be categorically the most cringy social media out there and is incredibly

0:49.5

inauthentic.

0:51.3

Hmm, that feels like a pretty firm vote in the not cool camp.

0:56.0

I think I suffer from secondhand embarrassment when I see a lot of times what other people post on LinkedIn.

1:03.0

This woman didn't want us using her name for work reasons.

1:06.0

But other people, like our colleague, Ndira Goff, went with the idea that LinkedIn might not be cool, but it is useful.

1:15.4

A good tool to have in your toolbox.

1:18.2

As a journalist, it can be really easy or helpful to verify that a random name that I found in a website actually is the CEO of a company.

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