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LinkedIn is strictly for business, unlike all other social media. My business is best conducted within certain confines so I never post, or reply to posts on L

LinkedIn is strictly for business, unlike all other social media. My business is best conducted within certain confines so I never post, or reply to posts on LinkedIn. The people that start posting opinions on politics or or any of a number of topics are risking career suicide.

techdragon 3y ago
I don’t believe that objectively you can call LinkedIn “strictly for business” these days. Unless you want to count “pretending to do business” “lying about the business you do/have done” “pretending you have job offers” and all the other performative business LARPing at business positivity that goes on as “business”… at best it’s puffery at worst it’s fraud… and that’s arguably the most business part of LinkedIn, the people trying to scam other people into their business books and training courses… but it’s basically just scams at the end of the day. How can this be called “strictly for business”? I’ve recently been pushed back into the toxic cesspool that is LinkedIn due to trying to work with aerospace companies and other industries where I don’t have established personal connections and relationships to rely on, and I hate every time I visit the website or open the App… it literally oozes insufferably fake, toxic mental health damaging stuff… You are right on the motivation though, it’s recruitment spam or fake bullshit business cult stuff because anything else will absolutely hurt your career… which is why even I’ve been tempted to get chatgpt to write some positive shit for me (because I refuse to try and make myself think up that kind of shit, however I have had to read enough of it I can proof read some and decide if I’m comfortable posting it)
aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Re politics: it really depends. I work in a field tightly linked to policy, and have contacts in other fields linked to the ecological transformation. Lots of them post politically loaded posts related to their area of expertise (some even selfies in demonstrations), and I think it actually serves them. Basically, it gives trust in their commitment to their topic, and that they are not only there for the paycheck.
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techdragon 3y ago

I don’t believe that objectively you can call LinkedIn “strictly for business” these days. Unless you want to count “pretending to do business” “lying about the business you do/have done” “pretending you have job offers” and all the other performative business LARPing at business positivity that goes on as “business”… at best it’s puffery at worst it’s fraud… and that’s arguably the most business part of LinkedIn, the people trying to scam other people into their business books and training courses… but it’s basically just scams at the end of the day. How can this be called “strictly for business”? I’ve recently been pushed back into the toxic cesspool that is LinkedIn due to trying to work with aerospace companies and other industries where I don’t have established personal connections and relationships to rely on, and I hate every time I visit the website or open the App… it literally oozes insufferably fake, toxic mental health damaging stuff… You are right on the motivation though, it’s recruitment spam or fake bullshit business cult stuff because anything else will absolutely hurt your career… which is why even I’ve been tempted to get chatgpt to write some positive shit for me (because I refuse to try and make myself think up that kind of shit, however I have had to read enough of it I can proof read some and decide if I’m comfortable posting it)

aftoprokrustes 3y ago

Re politics: it really depends. I work in a field tightly linked to policy, and have contacts in other fields linked to the ecological transformation. Lots of them post politically loaded posts related to their area of expertise (some even selfies in demonstrations), and I think it actually serves them. Basically, it gives trust in their commitment to their topic, and that they are not only there for the paycheck.

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