> How is someone that values their privacy supposed to get a job or even break in to having a job where they make connections to peers?
You can't really connect and socialize with people online without being a little lenient about privacy.
Still a social network, but Twitter is great. I can ask more "famous" people to retweet a tweet from me asking for jobs or even get them to connect me with someone (if you spent a bit of time meeting them). Also, depending on your community their chat or forum may help. For React, I've gotten interviews and contracts from their chat. For real life, meet ups are good though you gotta be a bit extroverted.
You can't really connect and socialize with people online without being a little lenient about privacy.
Still a social network, but Twitter is great. I can ask more "famous" people to retweet a tweet from me asking for jobs or even get them to connect me with someone (if you spent a bit of time meeting them). Also, depending on your community their chat or forum may help. For React, I've gotten interviews and contracts from their chat. For real life, meet ups are good though you gotta be a bit extroverted.
I've also never used LinkedIn.