Maybe if you read them more thoughtfully, you'll get more out of them?

Hammers are individual tools. LinkedIn is purely social. Most people only used it because other people were using it. If people are quitting it, then it might be good to announce that as well. Certainly that's the only significant way to pressure LinkedIn into improving things.

Of course, this being the internet, people do talk about which hammers they use: http://kk.org/cooltools/archives/1659