LinkedIn continues to grow, but into what?

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Editor's note: J fiddled with the idea of joining LinkedIn for three years. Despite being prodded by her teachers and the fact that most of her batchmates were already there on LinkedIn, she resisted the temptation. On the cusp of entering her fourth year of law school, J, who is 21 and a first-generation law aspirant, finally decided to give the professional networking site a shot in the hope of connecting with lawyers and landing more internships. After spending two days on the website, she felt like a complete loser. “I connected with some batchmates, went through their profiles and realized that most of them did one internship every month throughout 2020. I was just flabbergasted,” she says. “It also made me feel like a complete failure because, through the last year, all that I did was cooking and one research assistant-ship that lasted four months. I was demoralized beyond words. They were publishing articles left, right and centre, and all I could manage was two measly articles.” After simmering in self-pity for a while, she decided to speak with friends and …