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What I find interesting is that, anecdotally, recently my VC network on LinkedIn has started treating it like facebook. I always thought LinkedIn was basically
by neom 4y ago
What I find interesting is that, anecdotally, recently my VC network on LinkedIn has started treating it like facebook. I always thought LinkedIn was basically just an address book for people you've interacted with professionally, increasingly I see it turning into family photos and mediocre thought leadership.
- WA 4y agoI joined LinkedIn two weeks ago for the first time and have never used it before. It feels very much like Facebook to me with a touch of business-LARPing.
- wildrhythms 4y agoIt's somehow worse than Facebook because the 'social media' aspect is flooded with posts from what people refer to as LinkedInfluencers competing with each other to post the most cringeworthy brand-safe corporate-worshiping 'motivational' content you can imagine.
- hashtag-til 4y agoTrue. I'm not in VC or anything, just a regular engineer. I've been considering ditching LinkedIn altogether for many months now, due to increased rubbish content. The only bit I'd miss is to be able to look into others profiles to basically access their CVs. I wonder if there in an opportunity for a paid solution for something which is "the old Linkedin" which means your online CV with very limited social stuff... perhaps some text messaging and that's all.
- oneoff786 4y agoJust don’t read it and don’t get rid of your account?
- sveme 4y agoLinkedIn has increased its value for me because I can follow companies and learn what they are up to - either as competitors or potential employers. These mediocre linkedin influencers are a scourge on the platform, though. If I encounter one of these posts, I quickly unfollow the person that liked or shared it.
- imartin2k 4y agoAgree! It’s the best place I know to get updates from many companies. I follow over 1000 startups there for monitoring purposes and it’s incredible how many news are being published exclusively through LinkedIn, at least here in Sweden.
- hashtag-til 4y agoThe issue seems that it more and more enforces other recommended stuff and you constantly need to be "unfollowing" stuff you didn't follow in the first place.
- hef19898 4y agoSo like all other social media recommendation algos. Side note, I also unfollow people liking shalloe leaderships posts. Either Simsek stopped posting, or I finally managed to get rid of him.
- gadders 4y agoDon't you want to read my story about how a guy cut me up in traffic and swore at me and then turned up to be interviewed by me 30 minutes later? Definitely really happened and not made up.
- Kiro 4y agoYesterday I was walking to an interview. There was a starving dog on the road. I stopped to feed him & missed the interview. The next day I got a call asking to come in to do the interview. I was surprised, but I went. Then the interviewer came in. He was the dog. (source unclear)
- gadders 4y agoSmart dog :-) The worst thing is some of these LinkedIn influencers have been spotted cutting and pasting these bullshit stories (not necessarily your one!) word for word. It's cringey enough as an original, but to copy it??
- inductive_magic 4y agoPeople do that either to push their brand/being visible, or to appear relatable to their network. It's like most ads - not meant to convince you of the product, but to reinforce your awareness of it.
- Cthulhu_ 4y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/linkedinlunatics https://www.reddit.com/r/linkedinlunatics is full of that, lol
- martin_a 4y agoHaving a - not so great - day at work, I know what I'll spend some time on now. :-D
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y agoLove it! Thanks! The interpretations are what does it for me.
- bawolff 4y ago> mediocre thought leadership. Mediocre is being generous
- oxfordmale 4y agoLinkedIn is a hallucinogenic social media platform. Because people are using their professional identity on that platform, you can post that 1+1=3 and have people profusely thanking you for your valuable insights. I have half considered to create a fake LinkedIn account to comment on all the BS that is posted, however life is too short.
- Lutzb 4y agoLinkedIn is a strange place indeed. People interacting like overexcited toddlers, banalities are shared like life-changing epiphanies, people are congratulating themselves on jobs well-done. I considered writing a short story about an alien race that prepares for first contact with earth solely from learning about humans on LinkedIn.
- bombcar 4y agoI’d read that story - LinkedIn is a very weird place.
- sgerenser 4y agoThere's already a number of parody LinkedIn accounts. The real accounts are so crazy I really wasn't 100% sure this was a parody when I first read it: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alexander-cohen_work-money-hotel-activity-6970895628163842048-9O2S https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alexander-cohen_work-money-ho...
- nvarsj 4y agoI really want to comment on some of these idiotic posts but it basically goes on your “permanent record” so to speak, so I hesitate. Probably the same for everyone else, and why there is nothing at all to stop the rampant fake positivity which ruins the platform.
- geomark 4y agoI made the mistake of connecting with an old engineering colleague who has since become a "life coach" and I'm so sick of their life lessons posts and fake positivity but feel like I can't remove them from my network.
- neuronic 4y agoFor me it is 3/4 just this type of address book or my company's talent search posts. The other 1/4 is a flood of r/linkedinlunatics material which is getting increasingly more common and worse. Platitudes about leadership, work life and mediocre, thoughtless hot takes on whatever field the OP is working in. It feels very much the same as Instagram influencers superficial bullshit posts but now it targets the professional world rather than potential consumers.