The LinkedIn Killer, Smartphones Go Dumb, and Social Media Bans in Action with Jag Sharma, Jason Kapadia, Felina Tan and Jen Campbell - E97
Would you trust AI with your career choices?
LinkedIn is hoping that you wouldn’t, while OpenAI takes on the old guard in the talent market with its new jobs platform…
The prospect of LinkedIn’s timely death makes for light reading for Jen Campbell, while Felina, Jason and Jag take us through ‘dumb phone’ apps, social media bans, and the dead internet theory rearing its head once again!
This episode of Disconnected covers:
OpenAI disrupting the job market and upstaging LinkedIn
The questionable authenticity of online content, with bots and fake accounts running amok on social media
Digital minimalism, and the ironic advent of ‘dumb phone’ apps
The role of YouTube and other social media platforms in education vs their influence on youth culture
Episode Highlights:
“Anything that's going to bring LinkedIn down is in for me, I'm all for it.” - 5:30 - Jen Campbell
“Just imagine it; OpenAI knows that you're broke, it knows your bank statements, it knows you've got less than a month of rent payment left, and it's like ‘McDonald's is hiring’...” - 14:25 - Jason Kapadia
“The irony is quite amazing, because we somehow need an app to make our smartphones dumb again, because they've become too smart for our own good.” - 24:45 - Felina Tan
“You mean people could sit at dinner and not have their phones in front of them in a restaurant? Could you imagine!?” - 32:40 - Jen Campbell
“I'm just really looking forward to a day when one of the platforms implement the gold standard kid-safe set of guidelines, and hopefully the rest will follow suit.” - 43:40 - Felina Tan
Links & references:
Felina Tan
https://www.linkedin.com/in/felinagabrielletan/
Jen Campbell:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-m-campbell/
Jag Sharma:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jagsharma
https://www.instagram.com/jagsharma/
Jason Kapadia: