Does anyone else feel like LinkedIn....

The Chat GPT-style posts I can handle, as people have said, virtually every post these days is made that way, so I just ignore them.

The most annoying part for me is how they've completely messed up the job search thing! It used to be really good, but now you can type in 'electrician', for example, and get 'dog walker' jobs! It's infuriating!

It used to be good! There's literally no other purpose to LinkedIn than for career progression, and they can't even get this right.

The automatic ones says happy (at least now). The delighted ones usually wrote way morr than just the basic text. I wonder if it used to br delighted and now cjanged to happy or if it was just a trend

Actually the saddest thing to me is people who pour out their hearts about how desperate they are for a job and have been looking for almost a year and are now feeling very down.

I absolutely empathise, but do wonder if it's a productive way to interest future employers and if they really want all that laid out bare forever.

"So honoured to be asked to take part in this inspirational panel of sector leaders....."

You're there because your employer is sponsoring the conference, the "kick back" is a panel seat and no-one else wanted to do it, so STFU please.

LinkedIn used to be really good but now it's just evidence of why we cant have nice things .

I stopped using LinkedIn ages ago because it was becoming more and more of a platform for people to spout how amazingly talented they are.
Got so sick of it.

While we're here - can anyone tell me how to get my profile picture back to normal and get rge "open to work" thing off?

To be fair on that one, its just the linkedin standard text. I recently updated something on mine and it asked if I wanted to share it to my feed. I said no because I can't be arsed with the notifications but if you say yes, that's what it posts.

I only use it for job hunting.

Otherwise it's a load of SME making posts and 5 employees reposting and replies designed to boost it in the algorithm. Or long self congratulary posts from the LinkedIn equivalent of influencées.

It is a useful place to have my CV etc available tho - that & the job search is the only reason I keep it

The funniest to me is there is a recurring advertisement post where they have a perfectly nice picture of a human being and then they show the after picture where she looks weirdly droid like. And they think people will pay to make these changes for their LinkedIn pictures and it will lead to more job offers.

I tell you I miss the days of scouring the local papers job section on a Friday.

It sounds like shite.

Glad I've never been there.

It is the best way to find a job in my industry, but it is truly awful. The dreadful stories, the recruiters who use their latest holiday, accompanied by photo to talk about why the role they are hiring is amazing.

It's useful to get an idea of people's backgrounds and what they do in their organisation, but I just can't bring myself to write those "I'm thrilled to share <I went to a 2 day technical conference in Birmingham>" posts.

I wonder if some people automated their responses.
"reply to every post mentioning X with 'Interesting!'"

God it's a hole these days.

I think my fave people are the 22 year old fresh graduates who are <ahem> setting up their own marketing business; the main function of which seems to be them posting perky little selfies to be liked by 400 50-year old men.

Oh the business lessons they love to share...without even ever having had a job out of uni. But hey they're 22 with nice boobs so...automatic LinkedIn influencer!

Also the people who post saying they're off on holiday for a week and won't be posting. As if anyone on the planet would notice or care!

Are you kidding me? That is a new low.

Everyone I know seems to have become an Executive Coach. All running through woods posts and inspirational quotes. Grim.

Or they are menopause gurus.

Yes. It's horrible.

It's terrible. Like the world's biggest boasters all being fake and sharing fake congratulations to each other.

I’m a copywriter and AI has absolutely decimated my industry.

I’ve been doing this for 15 years and previously had clients queuing up for my services. It’s like a wasteland now, and I’m barely scraping by.

No one even gives a shit that AI is constantly wrong. Or that when it rewords text, it frequently changes the meaning in a way that’s subtle but significant.

So bearing all of that in mind, I can’t stand looking at LinkedIn. It’s like watching the person who stole your job do it really, really badly while everyone else cheers them on.

Me? Bitter? Nooooo…… 🫣🫣😂😂

I work in Tech and use LinkedIn to share tech updates, latest events and webinars. My feed is often charity events with requests for sponsorship.

The most recent horror, is all the personal trainers using it to drum up business.

I really object to being approached in a ‘professional environment’ by someone telling me maybe my weight is holding me back, and can they help.

I probably get one a week of these now.

Actually, I think you'll find they are 'stoked' 😂

Interesting, I use it a lot and don’t experience it like this at all. Must depend on the algorithm. I do find it tiresome sometimes but I get over any social media pretty easily, apart from my IG which is a perfect mix of funny stuff, things I’m interested in, and dogs

You need to curate your feed! Mine is mostly marketing people I like or want to learn from so it's a nice place to spend time. Anyone shitposting gets unfollowed or blocked

LinkedIn is the place where people speak in either inspirational quotations or just post complete shite.

If it was a pub, you'd burn it down.

It's always been somewhere to preen and blow your own and your organisation's trumpet but some of the crap posted now is more like a mix of corporate Facebook and opinions. Some of the personalities are dreadful.