Building your own website to showcase your skills is great. In the professional world LinkedIn is a great place to stay connected professionally especially with older people.
Most of the time when someone asks if I have LinkedIn it is because they are leaving the company and still want to stay in touch professionally or even endorse my skills.
Both have benefits but try to see outside the HN bubble.
> Both have benefits but try to see outside the HN bubble.
Given the love LinkedIn is getting on HN, I'm not sure what bubble you're referring to here...
I deleted my LinkedIn profile when I got fed up with hearing how scummy the site was; one story too much got me to take a look at my profile and realize that nothing good ever came out of that site for me.
Most of the time when someone asks if I have LinkedIn it is because they are leaving the company and still want to stay in touch professionally or even endorse my skills.
Both have benefits but try to see outside the HN bubble.