What is the point of these vain/vanity numbers? This is like saying "I read 50 books last year" - ok, so? One great book is better than a million shitty books. Enjoying/understanding/implementing the learnings from one book is better than reading a thousand books for reading sake.
How many of these posts are non-spam, useful etc?
Shouldn't we measuring usefulness of info, friendships formed, partnerships created, things learned etc? Though I don't know how to measure any of these, or if it is even possible.
9 times out of 10, this "data driven" stuff is just useless and annoying
I think it's a somewhat useful proxy. You can't measure "friendships formed", so you find something you can measure that hopefully correlates with "friendships formed".
As you point out, it's not without it's flaws, but I think most people would say that some data is better than none.
How many of these posts are non-spam, useful etc?
Shouldn't we measuring usefulness of info, friendships formed, partnerships created, things learned etc? Though I don't know how to measure any of these, or if it is even possible.
9 times out of 10, this "data driven" stuff is just useless and annoying