To hate LinkedIn with a passion?

[Thepeopleversuswork]

I know, I know, it's the only acceptable "professional" social media network and its essential for finding jobs and for building your brand and building connections bla bla bla. I use it for a living and I recommend clients use it.

But its just professional sycophancy dressed up as "insight" with a very transparent veneer of "authenticity". People post self-serving shit designed to suck up to their boss/shareholders or be picked up by algorithms and people line up to say "so insightful" and other platitudes. A tiny fraction of the things posted on LI are genuine or thoughtful. They are all just corporate drivel disguised as commentary.

For all their toxicity and addictive qualities (and God knows I hate Elon Musk) at least X, Facebook and Insta are, dare I say it, real?

@TenaciousDeeds

If a company is hiring and compare three candidates’ LinkedIn profiles, and two are just the CV part but one shows a lot of posts demonstrating what they’ve been up to etc, wouldn’t that give the latter candidate the edge?

No. Maybe I'm a grumpy old cow but I'd think the latter candidate was a narcissistic attention seeker.

It’s this one -

@Coolasfeck thank you for saving me from my Luddism :)

Totally agree!

Totally agree OP. I mean, it has brought me several clients so it's not all bad but dear God, the utter drivel some people post. And why is my feed full of graduation photos?

As long as you realise everyone's blowing their own and their organisation's trumpet that's fine.

There's definitely a high degree of twattery in the comments sometimes.

I say it on every I HATE LINKEDIN post on here, but - you need to curate your feed so you don't see that shite. https://nikki-pilkington.com/clean-up-your-linkedin-feed-in-2-easy-steps/