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?

I think it’s possibly the new gen approach, ie ‘personal brand’ being all-encompassing, no separation between personal and professional.

In what way is it triggering? That's a term used for PTSD.

Rtft.

Yes, there's a Twitter account called CrapOnLinkedIn where you can send the stories about Things That Didn't Happen like "I was busy writing a presentation but then my 5 year old said "Daddy, time is your most precious resource" so I went and played with him" or really bad virtue signalling like "here is a photo of me with a homeless person I have just helped" .

But yes, this being bombarded with people's tragedies is too much for me when I'm feeling fragile. In fact, even seeing a happy couple in a wedding photo, great, congratulations, but please keep it away from LinkedIn (especially when I've just been dumped!) and leave it for facebook.

I think the lowest point has been in the last week; LinkedIn added the laughing emoji and the hundreds of people posting completely unfunny comments about it or worse, posting to say 'thanks LinkedIn' is sad as fuck.

Also - I don't know you and I certainly never met your sadly now deceased mother. Stop posting about her and trying to tie in a weird life lesson to try to stay relevant. It's creepy and crass.

I'm only on it for my uni course graduates group really - although that's the same ones who always have 50 side projects on the go trying to plug them the same on there as on everything else... and the odd job that gets posted there rather than anywhere else. Notifications muted and I rarely bother looking to be honest.

Wow. I don’t use LinkedIn. In life I do over share a little but at work I try to keep the lines clear. If it’s essential (eg this week my son was in hospital so I told my boss because I needed to be with him but asked he didn’t share with others) I’ll tell them. Surely it’s not professional to splurge all over a network, which I’d always thought LinkedIn was?

Also saw the stillborn baby post this morning and felt a bit weird!
not a fan of how it’s changed

Oh god a few of the young people at my work have taken to Linkedin to start building their ‘brand’ which mostly consists of them posting the most inane bollocks on a regular basis.

There has definitely been a massive uptick in over sharing personal tragedy/ misfortune for likes which is just unnecessary on a personal platform.

I'm sick of women posting crap and then adding a selfie where they're wearing, for example, not much more than a bra on top, and essentially daring anyone to think anything except 'yeah you go sister'.

I literally just saw this example and thought of this thread.

I saw this, we must have connections in common or loads of people are sharing it.
Due to my own experience I found this very upsetting and apart from that LI is a Business platform as far as I am concerned
Our MD recently suggested a post related to the Heard/Depp trial and I said no

I also saw the stillborn post (or another similar one). Lots of cleavagey filtered selfies about being a young woman working in a male industry, cancer diagnoses, spouse deaths, doing this for x dead relative, posts about women not being at home for their children, 95% of which are not posts made by my comments but ones people have interacted with. A load of bollocks the past couple of years.

Amazingly I work in construction and manage to get people to work for and with me without getting my tits out and bellowing 'got a problem with this'. Dunno how I managed before LinkedIn frankly.

I Understand peoples perspectives, about not wanting to be triggered, but then why keep everything for Facebook, when if it helps people build networks across the companies via the different content ?

How then could it help people not to be triggered would warnings e.g. Sensitive information help as a preface ?

I personally hate the bullshit ”I was born in a shack with no water, walked 50 miles to school barefoot and only had 1 arm, applied for 1,000 jobs and was rejected but the 1,001st employer said yes…and now I’m CEO of that company. NEVER GIVE UP” posts.

I also saw the post about a stillborn baby yesterday together with the picture of the beautiful little boy. I wondered if the writer’s wife knew what he was doing and his decision to share incredibly personal information about what she endured during this horrendously tragic time with thousands of complete strangers.

Posting the kind of shite mentioned makes me NOT want to connect or do Business with the people posting it

The latest trent is to bring your "whole" and "authentic" self to work ... this means others have to be empathetic to ur personal life too.

Personally I've found most of the posts u talk about aren't actually connections of mine, they are in my feed as a connection has liked it.

Yes I am a bit fed up with the personal stuff too. Yes people buy from people but you don't need to know all the ins and outs of peoples' lives and all their tragedy. A bit about their hobbies or maybe a career challenge they dealt with and how they dealt with it - eg dealing with redundancy or a business going bust and starting again. That is enough. The rest belongs on Facebook or Instagram.

But I know a lot of people disagree with me.

I also saw the post about a stillborn baby yesterday together with the picture of the beautiful little boy. I wondered if the writer’s wife knew what he was doing and his decision to share incredibly personal information about what she endured during this horrendously tragic time with thousands of complete strangers

I saw that one too. It also annoys me when people say "my employer is so great for dealing with this stuff". No, they are not great at all, it's like praising a dad for looking after his own child. Decent employers let their employees deal with personal stuff, it should not be something you celebrate or even have to mention because they should all be doing it!

It will depend on your connections. I've never see any posts like the ones described. My feed is very professional and rarely personal.

Yes to all this I hate LI being FB. I just want to know work stuff. Not your cancer, your kid, your filtered face.

Just opened it. First post about a deceased mother then the stillborn baby. Obviously deeply traumatic and distressing but maybe time to have an alternative for actual work stuff.

Completely agree with all this! Thought it was just my feed that had been taken over by all these (what I would call) inappropriate posts. Fed up with all the tattoo posts on there this week too. Yes, yes the person who told you they thought your tattoos were unprofessional was a bit of a dick but no need to milk it for the entire week and keep posting your DM's with this person for the rest of us to see.

OMG @Anjelika did you see that the guy has now set up a website for photos of tattooed professionals, in a bid to rid the world of tattoo prejudice 🤣🤣🤣🤣