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Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

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Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

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This comment is:

1. Shockingly accurate

2. Making me laugh loudly

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Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

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Company xyz is hiring, amazing place to work blah blah, you would be perfect! Then the email is CCed to 50 other students and you find out the guy sending it only started at the company last month and gets paid a large bonus for whatever sheeple he can bring in :)

Don't forget after joining you have to make that post telling everyone how this is your dream job and show off the company goodie bag! #WeAreHiring #ChiefJediFinder

Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

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LinkedIn 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…

You only forgot one thing.

The post would be written like this.

This insufferable style of two line breaks between short sentences.

Seems to be a requirement for LinkedIn viral content.

Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

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The hardest (or saddest) part of being on LinkedIn is not seeing cringe posts by half-strangers but seeing how people you know well in real life change their behaviour or tone drastically on LinkedIn.

There should be a term for this in the same vein as 'virtue signaling'.

Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

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I actually like the Linkedin vibe. It’s like an alternate reality where everyone is always congratulating everyone else on their accomplishments! And shipping stuff! And investing in their careers! Seriously though, for some reason all this “The Office” stuff would be awkward and cringey in real life, but in an online format it works? Somehow? It’s similar to how an internet argument can be often way more rage inducing than a real life one, but with positive emotions instead.

Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

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the only reason i still use linkedin is to follow chad profitz. a biting satirical take on the linkedin persona:

"SHARE if you think it’s about time that LinkedIn allowed British people to join the site!"

Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

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LinkedIn 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…

Every community slides into its own stereotype like becoming a caricature of itself, but it's not objectively a bad thing, just strange to outsiders while the regulars are just fine with HN as it is. Oops, I mean LinkedIn.

I think the combination of real identities and the fact that you expect past, current and future employers and colleagues to see you on LinkedIn means “positivity” and affirmation is essentially forced on you, lest you be seen as “negative” or not a “team player”.

No one will ever contradict anything on LinkedIn because of that, which is why it becomes such a circle jerk.

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