Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
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Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
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Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#2LinkedIn has the atmosphere of working at a 200K employee multinational that even the CEO isn't really energized by.
It's honestly amusing how similar it is. Whenever I go on there I think of a job I had once in which people tried to one up each other for "most robotic".
Beep boop. The policy section 5 b says
you have used Beep 7 of your allotted holiday days.
Boop Please report your
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#3I never understood why I always got so depressed reading LinkedIn, until I read The Gervais Principle by Venkatesh Rao. And then I saw that LinkedIn consists almost entirely of clueless people talking to other clueless people, and exclusively in posturetalk (these are Rao’s terms - “clueless” means something specific). And if you haven’t read The Gervais Principle, I highly recommend it, although it may bum you out.
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#5LinkedIn is what happens when people from the sales/marketing department get promoted into C-level positions running other parts of a company.
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#6I would guess that way more people are on LinkedIn than Twitter. Most of the work-force is on the former, mostly only technologists, journalists, and artists on the latter.
I have friends in the traditional London banking community who absolutely don't know how to engage genuinely with social media and probably aren't interested in learning, but they're there on LinkedIn, talking in the traditional corporate language that they live in.
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#7LinkedIn probably has a net benefit for your career by keeping up to date and checking the messages once a week, but I cannot get over the awkwardness of seeing total BS stories and thousands of replies saying "YES! AMEN!".
"I was running late to an interview this morning but stopped to help a man who fell off of his bike and fixed it up for him. Afterwards I bought him a coffee and talked about life. He mentioned how he had to go to work but was touched by meeting me, he said we had a real connection. I go to the interview and guess what! The man was my interviewer! He immediately offered me a job at 1.5m a year plus bonuses and is fast tracking me to become a regional director. Remember to be a nice human #Hashtag #Human #WEAREPEOPLE #ConnectWithMe"
It's just a giant circle jerk.
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#8The thing that's been around the longest that always bugged me was:
Getting endorsed for skills by people who have no ability to evaluate my competency at those skills.
It's so shallow and badly designed at its job. But like every social network out there, it's buoyed by its inertia and network effects, and will last far longer than it should given its quality beyond the size of its network of users.
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#9I like the idea of linkedin. In that, I like to have business focused discussions/news.
It does tend to veer into this weird territory of everyone marketing to each other.
Anyway add me on linkedin.
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#10What an excellent post. LinkedIn seems to be getting worse and worse, merging in the worst aspects of the every-photo-is-staged "influencer" culture from Instagram and the stupid/not-inspirational/definitely-not-true meme story posts from Facebook. It really is so cringe.