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LinkedIn is as cringe as the corporate world. We should be asking why the latter is cringe. LinkedIn is just a symptom.
I deleted my profile a while back after a data leak and I was getting spammed on that email. The cringe factor of continually being "recommended" for crap was pathetic. That was even before the feed and the posts and the inspirational nonsense. It's performative corporate wankery that HR people love because it lets them think that they're promoting their corporate owner's "triple bottom line" and "social stakeholders…
Why is this article cringe? The problem is not LinkedIn, it’s people.
LinkedIn has been doubling down on this though. In the past week I've been hearing this new podcast ad from them about how "LinkedIn helps you be you real self". It's pretty bad. Can't find it right now but I've been hearing it non stop for a few days now.
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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.
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…
Both the comments on this thread would fit well on https://www.shlinkedin.com/ , if you haven't seen it, it is basically the sarcastic version of linkedin that you all live in. Personally, Linkedin has been incredible for staying in touch with a large range of business contacts over the last 10+ years. It's provided me far more value than any other social network -- but the feed is mostly a joke :).
LinkedIn 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 time sheet (my old manager, livin…
Please report your time sheet was downright triggering
[1] Not proper A/B testing. The variants get posted once a month or so, making the results meaningless to anything beyond my ego.
[2] Link available on request.
I 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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