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To hate LinkedIn with a passion?

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Thepeopleversuswork · 01/08/2025 10:41

I know, I know, it's the only acceptable "professional" social media network and its essential for finding jobs and for building your brand and building connections bla bla bla. I use it for a living and I recommend clients use it.

But its just professional sycophancy dressed up as "insight" with a very transparent veneer of "authenticity". People post self-serving shit designed to suck up to their boss/shareholders or be picked up by algorithms and people line up to say "so insightful" and other platitudes. A tiny fraction of the things posted on LI are genuine or thoughtful. They are all just corporate drivel disguised as commentary.

For all their toxicity and addictive qualities (and God knows I hate Elon Musk) at least X, Facebook and Insta are, dare I say it, real?

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Thepeopleversuswork · 01/08/2025 12:37

jbm16 · 01/08/2025 12:36

If you don't like it, don't use it, simple...

I have to use it. It's literally in my job description.

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Thepeopleversuswork · 01/08/2025 12:36

@NazeLife yes it absolutely has utility in certain sectors (I use it a lot for this purpose). There's just something incredibly insincere about the posts you see.

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jbm16 · 01/08/2025 12:36

If you don't like it, don't use it, simple...

NazeLife · 01/08/2025 12:34

As a journalist covering a specific industry I do find it useful to see what issues people are talking about and any innovations or good practice they are boasting about, and who is putting themselves out there and therefore might be up for a quote or an opinion piece. But yes the majority is just “what a great day at xxx event, so amazing to catch up with Same Old Names and benefit from their insight into the sector”

LandOfFruitAndNut · 01/08/2025 12:19

If you are saying that images/ content are not at all stage managed on other social media then I’d say you were in La La Land. LinkedIn is as genuine as the next social media. i.e. not very genuine.

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Thepeopleversuswork · 01/08/2025 12:17

@TheAmusedQuail it isn't so much the profiles I object to its the awful posts on themes which posters consider to be of interest to their sector.

Long boring blow-jobbery of someone making a speech at a conference which passes under the guise of "insight" but is actually a thinly veiled attempt to get a job.

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TheAmusedQuail · 01/08/2025 10:43

There is some BS on there. But in my field (and this from snooping on the pages of others I've worked or currently work with) their profiles are fairly accurate. There is a bit of self-aggrandisement going on, but no more so than on their CVs.