when did you stop trusting linkedin?

this is partly research and partly therapy.

i'm building TAM because i hit a wall with linkedin around the time every cold message i got started with 'i hope this email finds you well' generated by chatgpt. but i've talked to enough people now to know everyone has a slightly different moment where they lost faith in the resume-and-headshot economy.

what was yours? the specific moment you realized the loop was broken. could be a hiring experience, a layoff, the recruiter spam, watching someone get a job they had no business getting. anything that flipped the switch.

not collecting data. just curious how universal this is.