The Hot Social Network Is… LinkedIn?

So says the Wall Street Journal. They have data to back it up:

Plus quotes from yours truly:

Even before Elon Musk gutted X’s content moderation, James Bailey was tired of the shouting. “It’s like a cursed artifact that gives you great power to keep up with what’s going on, but at the cost of subtly corrupting your soul,” said the 38-year-old Providence College economics professor.

He retreated. This year, he realized he was spending five to 10 minutes a day on a site he used to ignore.

The WSJ reporter contacted me after seeing my previous post about LinkedIn here, explaining how I think LinkedIn has improved as a way to share and read articles, and was always good as a way to keep up with former students. Just in the short time since the WSJ article came out, I finally used LinkedIn for one of its official purposes, hiring, where it worked wonders helping to fill a last-minute vacancy.

If you don’t trust me or the WSJ to identify the hot social network, lets see what the actual cool kids are up to

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