Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn

I find LinkedIn really cringy. And I haven't seen ONE post there that actually added value to my life.

It is also toxic as hell.

But I know people who got employment offers from LinkedIn. So it adds value in that sense.

I just mute and block those influencers. And check LinkedIn maybe twice a week.

One of the things I cannot find any excuse for is how fake people are. They are behaving in a fake manner even when they don't have to.

Like, someone makes an IoT project (usually copied from GitHub), and markets it like this- "I was having X problem. I though why not solve it with modern technology? So I made this innovative blah blah copy of something".

Yuck. So cringy!

Guess, it's like Twitter. If you follow the right people you get good content.

The only thing bothering me on LinkedIn are the recruiters and that got much better in the last years.

Most of the time I use it to stay in touch with old co-workers and to syndicate my articles, which sometimes (2-5 times a year) leads to new clients.

A shamelessly copied and posted post was circulating LinkedIn a few days ago, and someone shared screengrabs how these bottom-feeders are copying and posting content. The content of the post makes matter worse.

A bunch of recruiters posted like this- "generic name was a recent college grad he/she was really talented. they asked for X amount of money. But I gave them Y (Y quite > X). This is the time for human solidarity and being honest and rewarding people for their talent, blah blah blah."

In some screenshots, the name, tech stack, and amount of money were all same.

How low can these people stoop?

Thank you! I’ll make good use of this filter.

> a vast circle jerk in the cloud

Well, that has the ring of truth, when applied to the newsfeed. And the final conclusion that you should just get on linkedin when job searching and then get off again is fine. I find it incredibly useful for job searching, to the point that I don't even bother with other sites.

However, the job search experience is badly spoiled by secondary recruitment postings. These are especially annoying when the posting is cut off so that you have to follow an external link to get the full info. And having to apply from external sites is also a pain. Linkedin seems big enough to be able to enforce some rules on those sorts of things.

I think the newsfeed stuff that this article focusses on really only affects people who buy into it. Personally, after reading a few posts of the type '5 reasons your boss should stop doing that thing you hate', I stopped paying attention to the newsfeed unless there was a robot video from boston dynamics at the top. And the secondary features don't really seem like they have enough meat to stick.