I absolutely abhor LinkedIn but I play the game when I need to change paths. I do everything I can to never, ever log into it. I get immediate stress and second

I absolutely abhor LinkedIn but I play the game when I need to change paths. I do everything I can to never, ever log into it. I get immediate stress and second hand embarassment/cringe feelings when I do log in to update something. I have 15-17ish years in tech at various levels up to FAANG and over 1000+ connections but nothing crazy, I don't go out to make connections or anything so its purely organic job search/leave stuff. I don't add anyone I don't know and never have. When I log into it some of those 1000 connections are people from jobs I worked at that were so miserable that as soon as I see their names pop up I'm like, fuck, I'm glad you got away but now I'm reminded of my experience at XYZ. Then you have the Tony Robbins hustle culture people. They're impossible to avoid. "I sleep under my desk m-f! HUSTLE!" These aren't even my connections usually, it's just LInkedIn doing its for you page thinking I want to read that stuff while writing grpc services. It feels so much like performative bullshit. Everyone trying to impress one another with nothing impressive. Nobody talks serious tech. I've worked on some incredibly complex distsys stuff and we used to all network with one another on twitter. Never, ever linkedin. We'd add each other for the connection clout but we only discussed projects and real tech stuff on twitter or discord. I DO contribute my knowledge to some LinkedIn posts when I am around to do so, that usually consists explaining to someone how OCI containers or kubernetes or something works or to help them have a better process but those questions rarely start out with any technical depth beyond "this is how I shrink my docker images! Copy vs ADD!!" I'll log in and "Super Smart CTO Evangelist Hyper 10x Guru" who was a level 2 sysadmin who did piss poor work is still spouting that bullshit 10 years later. And I don't have only one of those, I have tons of those. I have a new manager as of about 6 months ago. He's horrendous. I made the mistake of not interviewing him (I'm staff level so it would've been me and 2 others yes/nos) and he got hired. I finally looked at his LinkedIn (not logged in, because I don't want that creepy site to tell him I'm looking at him) and he had the "SWE Manager Guru" bullshit and I just.. sighed. LinkedIn is a vastly different culture from the actual tech social media/communities I'm in. It's straight up performative sell-yourself bullshit. I just think it's gross. That site is made for recruiters and sales people. Also, https://old.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/ https://old.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/