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Of all the social networks, I never would've guessed that LinkedIn is the one people turn to when they want to sell drugs.
by LewisVerstappen 4y ago
Of all the social networks, I never would've guessed that LinkedIn is the one people turn to when they want to sell drugs.
- rajamaka 4y agoRampant drug use really would explain some of the bizarre "hail corporate" content that gets produced there.
- blitzar 4y agoYou dont have to be on drugs to do linkedin - but it sure helps.
- onion2k 4y agoDrug dealers are very entrepreneurial, and are often excellent at identifying underserved markets. It appears LinkedIn users are such a market.
- koboll 4y agoWhichever social network doesn't sufficiently moderate is the one people will turn to when they want to sell drugs. If you have a sufficiently popular CRUD, and you don't go our of your way to stop them, bad actors will leverage it to do crimes. It's that simple.
- imgabe 4y agoAdderall, Modafinil, cocaine, there's probably a big market on LinkedIn if you're peddling the right drugs.
- retSava 4y agoLinkedIn is closer to Facebook imo. The subreddit /r/linkedinlunatics is pretty funny, and also a bit scary. It's pretty interesting actually, on facebook you see people show off a manufactured persona that is always laughing, on vacation in exotic or glammy places, and on LinkedIn it's the exact same phenomena but the success indicators are different. I'm still a bit clueless on the whole LinkedIn influencer thing though. Is there some monetary gain from that? I don't think they have the same possibilities for eg ad space or sponsorship as eg youtube or blog influencers, so perhaps it's more a personal vanity thing, or selling books and courses. </rambling>
- 3np 4y agoI guess it's "brand-building", be it just for the sake of ego or as a funnel to their other channels.
- ratww 4y agoI think everyone else is also "clueless" about it, I don't think the jury is out for the possibilities you can have as a Linkedin influencer. Some people seem to be advertising their coaching services (for example: by targeting people looking for jobs), some are trying to advertise themselves professionally (lots of people showing Microsoft/Oracle/AWS certificates and writing articles about it), some are trying to advertise themselves as industry leaders so they can advance internally in their company, some are trying to build a network they can recruit from, and some are just misguided and are trying to replicate what they see on other networks. I guess that's why content is all over the place.
- Nextgrid 4y ago> Is there some monetary gain from that? I think that people who are "active" on LinkedIn rank higher in searches & suggestions, so the feel-good shitposts might be a way to improve their "SEO" if they rely on LinkedIn to find leads (recruiters, etc).
- dzhiurgis 4y agor/linkedinlunatics looks like pretty funny satire, was hoping for tons of cringe instead
- switch007 4y agoSearch Best of LinkedIn on Twitter
- wildrhythms 4y agoLet me summarize it for you: it's "rise and grind" culture and "hustlers" who have convinced themselves that climbing the corporate ladder is the most important thing they will ever do. It's sad really
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- petepete 4y agoI dunno, there's a lot of recruiters. They must need something to help them through the day.
- jmprspret 4y agoDoesn't surprise me. People do this shit on FB Messenger under their real names. Though these could be honeypots or straight up scams