To think LinkedIn has gone weird?

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It feels like Facebook or Instagram.

People are posting themselves drinking beer, in Ibiza and with their kids - is it just me to think it's supposed to be a professional platform so this is just weird?

What kind of things do you post on LinkedIn? I'm quite new to it so maybe I'm wrong - interested to hear others opinions.

It's become like Facebook now! YANBU

@moita I thought it was just me! It's ashame really as it's supposed to be for professionals but the lines are being blurred a lot by many of the posts I'm seeing!

YANBU! Am so sick of the overly confessional / personal posts on there.

I gave up on LinkedIn a while ago as it's so, so cringey. Every time I go on I thank my lucky stars that I don't work in a job where I'm expected to use it for networking and post cringeworthy gushy pish about achieving dreams and exceeding goals etc.

I went back to LI as a jobseeker during the pandemic because apparently everyone-but-everyone uses LI now. It seems to now be full of people wanting to trumpet their mental heath.

Yep! Full of braggers and attention seekers

Lol, if you do use it can I ask how you use it? I'm aware it can be good for networking but am struggling really to find what angle to post from I.e - informative or airy fairy bragging BS?! I can't work it out!

If I see one more person on LinkedIn writing "humbled" when they mean "proud" (i.e. the exact opposite) I'll be endorsing them for bullshit.

I think so too. I changed my profile photo to a "selfie" and even that felt like too much so I changed it back. I've been on it for years and never really gained anything from it so I'm not sure why I bother. It seems like FB in the way people want to have loads of connections and people writing how good they are at their job.

Totally agree. Has gone very Facebook. I use it solely for job opportunities and to support colleagues and ex colleagues alike. Ive also had men pretend to network then chat me up - this isn't Tinder.

I hate LinkedIn. Always have. It's an awful mixture of professional sucking up, bragging and dreadful screeds about work culture. Worst of all worlds.

LinkedIn going the same way as Friends Reunited- it’s going to die.

no real networking, if you say open to offers you just get recruiters, and the rest is brag athletes pimping their thing.

It is literally only useful when people you used to work with share job vacancy posts in your/a related field.

I have linkedin but literally only use it for the job search function. It is really good at finding similar jobs to what I have now in my location. I never post or engage in posts though, I agree it's a weird fb now.

@DashboardConfessional

It's become more than that recently. A lot of businesses use it for "brand building" and news and stuff. A lot of our clients want to put every cough and spit of what they do on it.

At least Facebook (for all its fault) allows a bit of personality and honesty. On LI everything is so unbelievably fake. People only like posts because they are hoping to be able to get a job from someone or get business from them in the future. Grim.

I HATE it! I want to use it for networking and business development but it’s just full of people posting 100% cringe. Wtf is with everyone posting sad face selfies as well, worse than take a bloody break magazine

I totally agree! It’s so annoying. Also so many posts starting with something like “they say that LinkedIn is becoming too much like Facebook, however I believe that bringing my whole self to work is the way forward, which is why I’m sharing this story about how I’ve now come out as bisexual to my husband and taken a lover #diversityandinclusion”

I find LinkedIn really useful in a professional sense and have got most of my jobs through LinkedIn so it’s upsetting that it’s becoming like Facebook, except people are very earnest and more irritating that usual.

There are still some great accounts that I follow and it’s a good way to stay up to date with my professional subject - but I wish there was a way to filter out the personal posts.

im also so surprised at the sexist/racist/political things people will comment on LinkedIn! You’re representing your organisation!! Boggles the mind

I follow some great people who post genuinely interesting news articles/research etc from our field. That sort of activity is few and far between though.

I also use it to stay connected/remember the names of previous colleagues and sponsor their charity runs (something I like to do!).

Also great for job searching and stalking hiring managers/teams. Also good for looking at career paths, if you want to see how to get somewhere in your career or make a career shift. I’ve had a few people message me and set up calls for advice to get into my industry, and I’ve been happy to do so and then will occasionally send them job links/opportunities I think might be good - sort of like mentor-lite.

I've never heard back from a single job I've applied for in LinkedIn.

It's full of Apprentice tossers in shiny suits name Dean and Kyle.

There is usually a lot of boasting/ stealth boasting on there, and people "who would normally do this, but...." sharing some rubbish.

What makes me laugh is the LinkedIn connections I have worked with in real life have written their profile up to be nothing like the position they held. For example some junior project manager on a failing project that wasn't really that critical, becomes program manager on £xxx million project which was delivered on time and under budget!!

Totally agree, I hate LinkedIn now! I used to use it a lot for work, to network and share ideas. These days it's just full of personal life photos, virtue signalling and click bait posts.
A shame because there's definitely a market for a professional networking site.

"Here's a picture of me on the beach on holiday, because I couldn't be my full self at work if I didn't take a meaningful break" vomit...

"I was queuing for a bus today. A grumpy middle aged white man pushed in front of a black woman, but then I let her go in front of me because I am so inclusive." vomit...

These are paraphrased of actual posts on my LinkedIn feed today.

It has gone a bit self-indulgent but hopefully it'll wear off.

No-one is the slightest bit interested knowing that Fred from accounts just climbed Ben Nevis with his girlfriend. It's all a bit cringeworthy.

I would definitely recommend the Twitter page “The State of LinkedIn”. It takes the piss out of those ridiculous bragging posts or the quite obvious made up (and often stolen from other people) stories