LinkedIn vs Alternatives · 2026

Wish You Were Here: A Postcard About What Travels Off LinkedIn

A postcard carries a short message and an address. What fits on the card moves with it. What doesn't fit stays in the mailbox at home.

POSTMARKED · 2026 · FROM LINKEDIN

Packing light for the move. Taking the resume text, education history and work samples travels — they fit right in the envelope.

Leaving the connections, message history and recommendations stays home — they only make sense at the old address.

NEW
PROFILE

Deliver to:

New profile or portfolio

Indeed · Wellfound · GitHub

or a personal site

What's written on the back

Resume text, education history, and work samples can be copied into a new profile or portfolio on Indeed, Wellfound, GitHub, or a personal site. Contact information you already hold offline can be reused. The connection graph, the history of messages, and the algorithmic visibility built on LinkedIn do not move to another platform. Recommendations and endorsements also stay behind unless the people who wrote them recreate them elsewhere. In 2026 the practical approach is to mail the portable pieces first, then reduce activity on LinkedIn, then rebuild the network-specific pieces over time.

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