LinkedIn is more heavily used by people who want networking benefits rather than as a place to carry out actual, on-site discussion.
An advantage of LinkedIn is that it has fewer irrelevant distractions than Facebook. I’m not sure how big of a factor this is.
Look at all the Facebook groups with names of the form “EA X”—while some of the names make sense, others mainly serve to restrict discussion of X, when more could be gained from engaging with the wider pool of people and thought on X.
One could say the same of many university clubs and university-branded Facebook groups. Humans are inherently tribal—it can be problematic at a certain level, but I wouldn’t worry about this kind of stuff. (Though I guess if there’s already a good Facebook group on a particular topic, it could be suboptimal to create an EA-branded duplicate.)
An advantage of LinkedIn is that it has fewer irrelevant distractions than Facebook. I’m not sure how big of a factor this is.
One could say the same of many university clubs and university-branded Facebook groups. Humans are inherently tribal—it can be problematic at a certain level, but I wouldn’t worry about this kind of stuff. (Though I guess if there’s already a good Facebook group on a particular topic, it could be suboptimal to create an EA-branded duplicate.)