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

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)