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Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

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Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

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Post by jturpin »

barnbuilder wrote: post #174
exdsq wrote: post #7

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.

Exactly, everything needs to be written like friggin dramatic poetry.

Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

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Post by danjac »

exdsq wrote: post #7

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…

They all seem to be variations on Grimm's "Frog Prince" rewritten by a bot.

Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

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Post by wly_cdgr »

Because almost all of us are wage slaves terrified of (our socioeconomic background's version of) starving alone under a bridge, and the few of us who are neither independently wealthy nor terrified are either too cool to have any use for LinkedIn and/or too crazy to pass on there

Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

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Post by jjav »

exdsq wrote: post #7

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…

> LinkedIn probably has a net benefit for your career by keeping up to date and checking the messages once a week

Yes. Ignore the whole post feed, there's no point to that.

But other than that LinkedIn is very valuable, keep your connections, see who knows who, hire people, get hired. It's the only social media (maybe should be called professional media) that I see any value in.

Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

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Post by jjav »

ryandrake wrote: post #73

LinkedIn 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.

> LinkedIn would be so much better if it was just a web interface for your resume and a rolodex for your networking contacts.

It is that and that's how I treat it. Super useful.

I don't read the post feed or post anything myself, that'd be a waste of time.

Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

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Post by ngc248 »

er4hn wrote: post #18
warent wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Show HN: LinkedIn created over 1 weekend (written in Rust, uses CSS instead of JS)

We want a LinkedOut

Agree?

#startup

Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

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Post by [deleted] »

SerCe wrote: post #71

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.

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Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

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Post by ornornor »

whimsicalism wrote: post #16
willhinsa wrote: post #8

The 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.

They also have stack ranked tests you can take to demonstrate skills, which seems like a relatively fair way to do it.

Have you seen the questions though? Ridiculous, useless trivia.

Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

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Post by geodel »

glandium wrote: post #130
ryandrake wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everyone is excited too. "We're excited to announce..." and "We're excited to hire..." and "It's so exciting to work at..." and "So excited by the release of..." It's like everyone takes a dose of Adderall with their coffee before posting.

Isn't it how workplaces look like in the US? (at least in corporate messaging)

About true. 1 day late delivery: the house is on fire, lets do a root cause analysis right this fucking weekend. On time delvery: This is the best , most awesome delivery ever!

It could be agile innovation/ digital transformation or something like that.

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