Does anyone else hate the recent navel-gazing on LinkedIn?!

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I mean I understand the premise of it. It is also really good for job hunting. There are useful blogs and articles etc. Fine.

But recently I have noticed a sharp increase in braggy, navel gazing posts. Mainly on the subject of working from home, job hunting, mental health, that sort of thing. “Oh look at me and how forward thinking I am with my views on flexible working (that everyone shares)”. “I am deeeelighted to announce that I have been made redundant and now I am free to accept opportunities 🤗” “today I have just finished my first week in my new job and I love my team so much and I love my firm” etc etc

I mean I get why they do it. I do. I’m not stupid. I just find the shameless self promotion over the smallest of things to be so cringe and jarring. Is it that people have more time on their hands now or what?!

I hate it. It irrationally annoys me. But I am required to use it for work (and also like I said it’s great for relevant vacancies) so I am required to look at it.

Yep I think now offices have closed certain people need an outlet for the woke posturing and sycophantic showboating behaviour so prevalent in the work place . I mean what else are these people going to do? Actually do a good job?

It turned into facebook.
People post pics of their kids with "awww he/she is 5 today! How the time flies!"🤷🏻

I don't live in the UK, but am on LinkedIn to keep in contact with people I have worked with in the past.
So far I have not seen any posts about children or mental health.
I was under the impression, possibly now incorrectly, that LinkedIn was a professional platform, not a squidgy, huggy place.
I have very senior people amongst my LinkedIn contacts, I would hate to have to withdraw because the "soft" masses got a hold.

I was under the impression, possibly now incorrectly, that LinkedIn was a professional platform, not a squidgy, huggy place.

I think we all were tbh. I think we all were.

Oh, yes. The only bit of this post I disagree with is that this is recent. My LinkedIn feed has been clogged with crap for years now. The ones that make me cringe the hardest are the recruitment posts someone mentioned further up, where a simply fantastic human being posts about how they took a punt on someone down on their luck. The more downtrodden the interviewee and less suitable for the role, the better the story. If the interviewee can cry and snivel, so much the better.

Other peeves:

The crop of graduation updates featuring photogenic youngsters and stories about how they beat the odds. “They all said I’d never do it - WELL LOOK AT ME TODAY!!!” (Not knocking anyone who’s overcome real adversity, but I get a real vibe of reality-show-sob-story on most of these.)

Funky dancing with motivational messages.

Inspirational thought leadership. So jargon-laden and obscure I don’t understand most of it.

Anyone liking those bloody irritating cheddar videos.

“Customer Experience” and “rockstar” in the same sentence (or worse, job title).

Posts about how parents make better employees. Filled with smug comments by other parents agreeing. Thankfully rare.

Yeah agreed. Totally cringe worthy and not cool on a professional networking platform.

I love LinkedIn, it's the future for job searching but this thread has made me howl. So many dickheads and posturing.