It did make it easier though. I don't have to keep a list of potentially outdated phone numbers and email adresses. LinkedIn makes it much simpler to broadcast your availability.

Most of LinkedIn is just garbage though, especially if you somehow connected with social-media people or marketing people. Marketing people on LinkedIn are weird, they can't form coherent sentences and they can't even sell themselves.

You could strip down LinkedIn down to your resume, availability status and your email address and it would be fine.