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by jrm4 7mo ago
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- adi_pradhan 7mo agoLOL you've nailed LinkedinSpeak here
- jrm4 7mo ago[flagged]
- ramon156 7mo agoOh, you were not joking. No, people do not care. You're not a celeb. This is textbook spotlight effect. Your life becomes a lot more enjoyable if you don't take yourself so serious, try it sometime
- jrm4 7mo ago[flagged]
- booleandilemma 7mo agoI disagree completely. If you post something racist on LinkedIn you're probably going to lose your job. Try it, if you don't believe me. If you post something racist here you're going to get downvoted.
- mancerayder 7mo agoThis can be read as why to avoid LinkedIn. Job searching is already hard, if you manage to land an interview you still have to spend time, as an old dude, studying Leetcode like you're a kid with five years experience instead of twenty. Then it's competitive. Etc. So to this you wish to add the increased risk of negative exposure by saying a bad thing? Or that someone, someones, or people five years from today consider a bad thing? I love writing and posting and engaging (you can tell from my history here alone), but I'm not crazy enough to risk spilling my feelings on a site full of people in suits and ties, with Leader next to their names.
- jrm4 7mo ago[flagged]
- gitaarik 7mo agoCan't you delete your LinkedIn posts anymore after you posted them?
- djmips 7mo ago"and I'll explain why."
- podgorniy 7mo ago> destroy, their own LIVELIHOOD Do you have examples of such occasions when the linkedin post was actually the cause?
- phyzome 7mo agoThere was a bit of a scandal at my employer some years back and IIRC it was kicked off by someone posting/boosting some really questionable stuff on LinkedIn. Amusingly, this was someone high up in HR.
- dijit 7mo agoMy postings on LinkedIn have definitely had direct consequences in my professional life. I consider them all good because ultimately if you get upset by the way I behave then that's probably going to be true if we work together also. Sometimes people like to tell me that I'm very authentic and it's clear that I'm not trying to suck up to anyone, which they respect. Some people quietly retreat from me and I find out later that it's because I hurt their feelings inadvertently by shitting on AI or calling out web development as largely being inefficient in resources or something.
- jrm4 7mo ago[flagged]
- jrm4 7mo agoNo, but as I've said below, this isn't about what will actually strongly happen, but what I think people think. I could be wrong here.
- kmijyiyxfbklao 7mo agoWell if that gets us LinkedIn, we should move as far away from that as possible, and not listen to the people who want real names everywhere.
- jrm4 7mo agoWeirdly, I also agree with this. Which is today, I think we're past the point of "One social media to rule them all." There's room for multiples, all serving important purposes. Maybe an ideal LinkedIn (work stuff), an ideal Facebook (people you know), Twitter (big public convos) -- and importantly but perhaps nonexistent, a healthy anonymous or pseudonymous space as well.