LinkedIn is triggering?!

[ChinBristles]

Is it just me or is LinkedIn no longer about boasting about your job and no longer even about virtue signalling. But now appears to be 90% people talking about their personal experiences of cancer, bereavement and pregnancy loss?

I'm torn because people can post about whatever they like online. And maybe their brave stories inspire others. But not everyone wants to see it when they are looking for jobs or whatever. Perhaps best kept for facebook or the like?

What do you think?

Yes I've noticed that too

I agree. I really dislike this (new) habit on linked in of posting things that are more appropriate for Facebook. I guess we're the dinosaurs and it's all part of the new culture of over sharing! I look on LinkedIn for things that are of interest to people in my profession - not just jobs but relevant articles etc. I'm close to giving up on it because I don't have the patience to wade through endless posts about what you learned in kindergarten or whatever.

Agree, it's like the opening rounds of xfactor.

Yes, I'm sure it is meant to be inspirational but it's annoying. One of my contacts is always commenting on them so I get an endless stream of them in my feed

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I absolutely can't stand it. I've also noticed half the people (if not more) on my feed are posting some crap about nothing in particular JUST so they can attach a selfie to it.

Eg. 'Insert vomit-inducing inspirational quote copied from Google here' + attach selfie which has nothing to do with aforementioned quote which looks like you've just taken it on a whim but for which you really got up 5 hours early to do your hair and make-up and this is the 50th one you've taken because the preceding 49 weren't spontaneous-looking enough

That and young, attractive women posting mundane shit about minor achievements, always with a selfie for the middle aged men likes.

Oh and Americans telling you how good a manager they are

YANBU. It's worse that Facebook.

I suppose it depends on your connections. Mine seem to be mostly posting the same normal work things. The only personal think I've seen recently was from a Ukrainian former colleague raising money for the orphaned children of his cousin who'd died in the war.

I’ve noticed this bizarre trend with a lot of people putting up “I hesitated before posting this..” messages with a picture of the author actually crying or looking incredibly depressed. There then follows a story “..this was me yesterday, I was feeling so down because <insert tragic or inane reason>“

LN is the only social platform I’m still on of as I need it for work. It is dreadful and stopped being a professional network a long time ago.

Yes, this exactly. It sends shivers down my spine.

It’s really changed. Someone I’m connected to reposted someone else’s post of a sadly still or. Baby boy yesterday - complete with photo. I feel for the parents, my goodness, but I really did not need to see that photo to empathise, and a business network is absolutely the wrong place for it.

Sorry *stillborn ^

I agree. In fact I deleted my app today, if I ever need the site again I’ll log in via the website.

I am constantly being bombarded with messages from recruitment agencies both trying to fix me up with jobs (I'm not looking to change) or send me their candidates (I'm not recruiting). I only really use it now to keep track of former colleagues who I didn't know well enough for FB and for some special interest groups (even those seem to be dying a death).

I always thought it was just for busy business people busily networking and polishing their oneupmanship skills, so I avoided it like the plague.

Sounds even worse now.

Completely agree with you all! I really don't want to know about someone's funeral or cancer diagnosis or life changing injury or the fact they have achieved some flakey award. Its just full of fake posts and people who have made out they've achieved stuff even though the most they've probably achieved is being able to use the printer in the office. Ha! It's got to be the worst social media platform out there! I would delete it if I didn't have to use it for work. Stay away if you can!

Oh and also <insert names of universities I attended over 20 years ago> please stop trying to flog me your MBAs via direct message.

Agree

It's because we're heading back to Victorian times: rentier economy, feudal ruling class in power, subsistence wages.

And so we are reverting to being a nation of emotionally incontinent drunkards.

Yes, I had this conversation earlier this evening, it's not set up for the sort of really triggering content I've seen recently, there's no way to really mute anything and you get shown everything any contact has had any interaction with.

I've seen two pictures of stillborn babies this week and you don't want to be the person who reports them and hurts the person posting because they just want to share their baby's story but it's made me feel I can't go on there while I'm pregnant just in case I see something like that, and I can't imagine what it's like for someone who's gone through baby loss and is just scrolling through LinkedIn in the working day to come across those posts.

I think LinkedIn is sickly as hell. So many people copy and paste stupid posts and then everyone congratulates them on writing sense when most people in real life are thinking wtf!!! All these people in apparent “high level roles” writing about how they give their staff time off when ever they want to, 200% pay increases blah blah blah.. yeah right mate, of course you! Utter bullshit.
(quite enjoyed my little rant here 🤣)

Totally agree! It's incredibly annoying and totally irrelevant.

I think it started from 'i had this awful thing happen and my boss/company was great for me & my family'

Which is really good to hear about.
But now it's basically Facebook without the pictures of your dinner.
Maybe that's coming next.

Yes absolutely agree.

I found it hard to see this week a post that included a stillborn baby and said ‘so sad to announce the birth of X who was born sleeping. But luckily due to X employer maternity policy I can take …’. It was almost a suck up to the employer but linking it to the death of their baby. Very odd.

I think I saw that post today. I'm in no way connected to the family (I think they were American?), and it was really not what I needed when I just wanted to check an ex colleagues job title. Really weird.