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LinkedIn has become plagued by self-help-like stories and other self promoting, vague and meaningless write ups, in my experience. It wasn't always like this.

by gota 7y ago

LinkedIn has become plagued by self-help-like stories and other self promoting, vague and meaningless write ups, in my experience. It wasn't always like this. I used to have a reasonably cool feed centered towards technologies and news that are at least partly relevant to me and my industry. No more. It's all 'I gave a homeless person lunch and today they are the #1 duck breeder in Brazil' or some other nonsense. I don't know when this started or if it is localized, but it renders the 'place to find useful information' aspect of social media completely void. There's no amount of reasonable curating effort that will save a news feed like that. I try not to be too negative about things but without some serious change I'll use a static LinkedIn profile and visit it for a fraction of a second every week - to check for messages - and nothing more.

sharadov 7y ago
I just can't stand the humble brag posts!
- fnord123 7y ago
  I know! As someone with 500+ contacts to high powered professionals I'm inundated with a huge amount of humble brag posts!
  - seoulbran 7y ago
    *chuckle
- lacampbell 7y ago
  You must hate Hacker News then. Well actually the bragging here often doesn't even get a veneer of humbleness.
  - elcomet 7y ago
    I disagree. I don't see much bragging around here. And amazing people hang here, which are often very humble.
    - sharadov 7y ago
      And if they brag, there is something to brag about.
humblepie 7y ago
Those are called "broetry" posts. I believe LinkedIn implemented some changes to reduce exposure on these, but I still see them regularly.
- icxa 7y ago
  WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH 12 DOLLARS IN YOUR POCKET AND A WIFE AND KID BACK HOME......
opportune 7y ago
I agree. But since I am young I have a lot of people who are still trying to upgrade to a "real job" after having graduated in the last 1-2 years and these articles are disproportionately shared by those people. Usually the articles are about how they sent 200 applications and it was all worth it to get that one acceptance, or are re-share spam about some manager taking a chance on a new hire or some shit. I haven't done any work into curating my feed since I rarely scroll through my feed anyway, but I think LinkedIn could do much better at putting industry-related news articles or blogs in there with less perseverance-porn
Balgair 7y ago
https://twitter.com/bestoflinkedin?lang=en https://twitter.com/bestoflinkedin?lang=en A good running collection of the 'best' of LI. Not a great running collection, but a good enough one.

by gota 7y ago

sharadov 7y ago

I just can't stand the humble brag posts!

fnord123 7y ago
I know! As someone with 500+ contacts to high powered professionals I'm inundated with a huge amount of humble brag posts!
- seoulbran 7y ago
  *chuckle
lacampbell 7y ago
You must hate Hacker News then. Well actually the bragging here often doesn't even get a veneer of humbleness.
- elcomet 7y ago
  I disagree. I don't see much bragging around here. And amazing people hang here, which are often very humble.
  - sharadov 7y ago
    And if they brag, there is something to brag about.

humblepie 7y ago

Those are called "broetry" posts. I believe LinkedIn implemented some changes to reduce exposure on these, but I still see them regularly.

icxa 7y ago
WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH 12 DOLLARS IN YOUR POCKET AND A WIFE AND KID BACK HOME......

opportune 7y ago

I agree. But since I am young I have a lot of people who are still trying to upgrade to a "real job" after having graduated in the last 1-2 years and these articles are disproportionately shared by those people. Usually the articles are about how they sent 200 applications and it was all worth it to get that one acceptance, or are re-share spam about some manager taking a chance on a new hire or some shit. I haven't done any work into curating my feed since I rarely scroll through my feed anyway, but I think LinkedIn could do much better at putting industry-related news articles or blogs in there with less perseverance-porn

Balgair 7y ago

https://twitter.com/bestoflinkedin?lang=en https://twitter.com/bestoflinkedin?lang=en A good running collection of the 'best' of LI. Not a great running collection, but a good enough one.