As an aside, I find very interesting the story of how "cringe" became an adjective.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-did-we-get-so-cring...
Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
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Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#112The 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.
I left LinkedIn the day I received one of those endorsements. It’s such a disgusting red flag that I want nothing to do with the place.
Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#113LinkedIn 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 ho…
This is true whenever your real identity is at stake tho? Almost everyone sanitizes their views in the public so much so there's no opinion in there anymore.
There's sanitizing, and then there's writing a parody of your life that's borderline low fantasy. If the joke is that everyone involved knows it's creative fiction, and I'm just the odd one out, then so be it. But if people reading those posts think it's anything more, I'm.... worried about people.
Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#114The main cause behind Linkedin being cringe is because it's fake and phony. There's so much fake positivity, humbleness, appreciation, virtuousness and empathy from every part of the corporate world now. This used to be at least guarded amongst upper level management, who endured this garbage but at a great financial gain. Now this corporate cringe has penetrated the general public. People who are making peanuts are…
"Disruption" is such a ridiculous nothing word. I had a recruiter solicit me for a job at a place that would be "disrupting the aviation industry."
The company she represented? Fucking Boeing.
Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#115Cringe is a verb, not an adjective.
Using it as an adjective is perfectly cromulent.
Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#116LinkedIn doesn't even need a posting feature or feed. It's great just being a self-updating rolodex.
Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#117Once I'm a billionaire, it's the first thing I'll do after paying for WinRar: deleting my LinkedIn account.
I never respond to anything, just keeping it around for now for the connections. I recently checked the inbox and noticed something very weird. It showed a list of recruiters that had sent me a message and their profile picture. There were about 15 on screen. All 15 were hot white blond women in their mid twenties.
I'm not sure what to think of that. The odds seem impossible. I work in a boring sector, so that doesn't explain it. Attractive women as recruiters isn't a new tactic, but in this case I had a very strong feeling they're just fake pictures. It's probably just one guy controlling all those profiles.
Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#118LinkedIn 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 ho…
For me LinkedIn now become a platform to announce job change, how grateful they are with current employer.
Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#119LinkedIn would be so much better if it was just a web interface for your resume and a rolodex for your networking contacts. Like basically all other "social" sites, the feed is what makes the site awful and turns it into a "how can I promote myself" cringe-fest. Get rid of the feed (and messaging, and job board, and notifications, and news) and it would be great.
But you forget that that's LinkedIn's entire business model. The newsfeed as a product is exceptional at hooking users and is the lifeblood of many an internet company. You need some way of getting access to eyeballs on some regular cadence to inject ads. It's basically a money printer.
Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#120The 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.
The idea seems to be that endorsements are by people who are your colleagues, and, hopefully, ones who have seen you apply your skills.
If pulled off correctly, its a powerful endorsement.
However, how does one really check if the endorsement is real or a favour for a reverse endorsement.