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"Try-hard: Somebody whose effort level and emotional investment is excessively high for the level of play in which they are competing."
Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
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#162LInkedin makes 10b/year and 65% is recruiting tools?
6.5 billion dollars a year?
Really?
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#163LinkedIn 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…
My favorite parody:
Yesterday I was walking to an interview. There was a starving dog on the road. I stopped to feed him & missed the interview. The next day I got a call asking to come in to do the interview. I was surprised, but I went. Then the interviewer came in. He was the dog.
Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
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Show HN: LinkedIn created over 1 weekend (written in Rust, uses CSS instead of JS)
Someone made a satirical front page of typical HN stories which is right along the lines of what you posted. It was really funny and still relevant even though a few years old now, I can't find it unfortunately
n-gate?
Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
#165LinkedIn 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 lol’ed
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#166Can someone please archive this thread. So many gold comments here.
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#167The cringe-worthy thing about LI is that people take it seriously.
Re: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
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We used to troll each other with my friends by endorsing with Drupal skills :)
My favorite trio of endorsements is Lubrication, Flexibility and Potatoes.
My friend's linkedin photo:
https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C5103AQHf_hGI8go5Tg/p...
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I sincerely hope it’s intentional because it captures exactly the intersection between HN and LinkedIn. 10/10 self-aware unawareness.
C'mon, everyone gets a chance to speak in class without being laughed at. Be nice.
Wow, this little subthread… the irony meter of talking about HN culture just folded in on itself.
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I know the book is a bit silly, but I only partially agree with your assessment, because I haven’t ever read anything that better describes existence within most large corporations. Would you be willing to elaborate on what you think it gets wrong?
The first blog post about the principle was amusing and offered some basic structure to the disorganized quality of work life, but it was the application of the principle that started to lose me. The machinations of striving to move from one position to the next started to feel rather nihilistic and cynical, even for me.
That’s fair. Going character by character was definitely a bit forced, if taken beyond entertainment value.