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?

@FriendlyPineapple no I hadn't but 🤣🤣🤣

It's deep black and white moody pretension from start to finish. Hilarious. As if, say, at least 50% of professionals aren't tattooed.

These people may be arseholes but they are fucking masterful content creators. It's kind of disturbingly awesome, what personal and otherwise tragedies they'll trade for some likes.

God yes, LinkedIn is such a pile of shit. All the things that drove me away from FB are now on there.

A few weeks ago I opened it up and the first thing I saw was an exchange from about two days earlier, where some random woman I don’t know had posted something like “nobody talks to me and unless someone replies to this I’m going to kill myself”. So a person in my network had responded with concern and details of the Samaritans. Then the OP had replied to
that with something like, “Hi, I don’t need that, I’m not suicidal I’m just annoyed” or similar, at which point my contact was like “Okay. Please don’t say you’re going to kill yourself on here if you don’t mean it”.

I mean, wtf?! What am I even reading

My work intranet has gone the same way. It's all done in the name of breaking taboos and talking about wellbeing and mental health, and while I can't fault the intention, I'm now frequently missing out on important work information because I find the intranet too emotionally draining (and at times triggering) and now avoid it.

Oh god the tattoo ones. I saw a a post with a man covered in tats who also had another face tattooed onto his own. Horrific. He wrote some crap about “all the employers who have judged me..I have a 1st class degree, MBA..you are losing out by rejecting me blah blah”.

All that money spent on your education and you couldn’t work out employers would be unwilling to recruit you since you look like a complete lunatic?

As for ‘bringing my authentic self to work’. WTF does that mean. Most normal people share something of themselves at work but keep certain aspects private. Apparently this is wrong and everyone should be forced to put up with whatever shit, unsavoury version of yourself you choose to inflict on colleagues. Thank god my company has made returning to the office completely optional.

It's the desperate trying to gouge an issue out of something banal that kills me.

Look, I'm just going to say it; oxygen is what keeps me alive. I know not many people in here would admit to breathing, but I'm not here to play safe, I'm here to be authentic and bring my whole self to my amazing LinkedIn community. And if that means talking about my totally normal and functional respiratory system, then I'll do it, and fuck anyone who can't handle all of me.

Then 1842 people will comment, applauding like the worlds thickest and most credulous sea lions.

I just logged on out of curiosity and have seen two posts about tragic child loss within 5 minutes scrolling. I agree, it must be awful for some people to see.

Agreed.
I now use it only to keep in touch with professional contacts I've made.
Don't post anything, don't read anything, don't accept connection invites from anybody I've not met.
If if anyone sends me messages trying to sell their goods or services, unconnect them.

Agree with all the previous posts. My pet peeve is very attractive young women being applauded for some success by all the middle age men. My feed often looks like a stream of sexy girls.

Yup. Just this minute saw a post from a very young woman who said she turned down a job because they tried to lowball her salary due to her inexperience.

Fine.

The photo added in what looks like a slip with quite a lot of cleavage on show didn't really add to the gravitas.

@FriendlyPineapple I have noticed my feed looking more like Insta every day with all the pouting and skimpy clothing going on.

I remember when I first joined LI being shocked that a business connection's profile pic looked to be her in a strapless wedding dress. I wouldn't blink an eyelid to see that today.

It's so boring. Posting pictures where you've set it up so you look hot, and daring anyone to recognise that you look hot.

I mean, creepy bastards should obviously get to fuck, but I honestly feel people are just using it now as an excuse to post half-naked selfies and get all the love in the world.

I think I can probably reduce the majority of these sorts of posts appearing in my field with some judicious unfollowing/removing as connections. It seems to be largely the same people commenting over and over again on those sorts of posts, so easy to remove 80%+ of them I think!

feed not field!

Yep. Checked it this morning - first post, a long and very graphic description by a guy of his wife’s late term abortion due to medical reasons (complete with photos of his poor wife in hospital) all to say he is so lucky he doesn’t live in the US. I mean…I take his point but it felt like a massive intrusion on a very low point in his wife’s (and his) life and I only hope his wife knew/was genuinely comfortable with him making the post.

The post immediately under that was a woman listing all the ways in which random men had sleazed onto her recently on LinkedIn complete with glamour shot of her wearing next to nothing.

I deactivated Facebook three years ago to avoid triggering/narcissistic stuff like this. It somehow seems even worse when it’s sandwiched between the usual mundane posts about new books being published/seminars being held/people’s new jobs. You just don’t expect to see it (well I guess now you do, which is the problem).

Yep, I came back on say that today my feed is full of people talking about their rapes and abortions. Now the case in America is a news story and affects us all but I do think people should be mindful about how their graphic story might affect someone just scrolling past.

Absolute confirmation of all of the above - I just logged on for the first time in a few days and the first post was a photo of a stillborn baby posted by a man. The second was a woman talking about her abortion. Third about a woman's weight loss.

I didn't scroll any further.

I want content that's relevant to my working life. I don't want to read about people's private lives.

I don't seem to get men leching over young women in my feed though.

At least 30 posts in my feed from women sharing their experience of abortion. Some starting with “I can’t believe I’m sharing this on LinkedIn..”

No, I can’t quite believe it either.