Love it! I too despise LinkedIn and your types of posts are spot on. But let’s not forget the “racial” posts. Stuff about “natural” hair and these “fabulous” DEI crap posts.
Haha. Great article! I, too, have wondered what purpose LinkedIn serves beyond a glorified electronic resume. What really cracks me up is that I haven’t updated it since my layoff in 2020. Oh, I can update it with my new information, but somehow, it gets shoved to the very bottom of the to-do list. But I still get dozens of emails, some while I was still on unemployment, telling me that I’m “being noticed” for my “good work.” Well, I’m happy to say that I found a new job pretty much without it.
And as for the main feed ... it’s all useless swill. There are the rehashes of rehashes of rehashes of job hunting advice/resume writing from the last 50 years, dressed up for social media, the HR blather, and worst of all, the political posts, which have no business being on a so-called “business/professional” site. You want to talk politics, or DEI, or whatever the HR flavor-of-the-month issue is? Take it to another forum.
Love it! I too despise LinkedIn and your types of posts are spot on. But let’s not forget the “racial” posts. Stuff about “natural” hair and these “fabulous” DEI crap posts.
Haha. Great article! I, too, have wondered what purpose LinkedIn serves beyond a glorified electronic resume. What really cracks me up is that I haven’t updated it since my layoff in 2020. Oh, I can update it with my new information, but somehow, it gets shoved to the very bottom of the to-do list. But I still get dozens of emails, some while I was still on unemployment, telling me that I’m “being noticed” for my “good work.” Well, I’m happy to say that I found a new job pretty much without it.
And as for the main feed ... it’s all useless swill. There are the rehashes of rehashes of rehashes of job hunting advice/resume writing from the last 50 years, dressed up for social media, the HR blather, and worst of all, the political posts, which have no business being on a so-called “business/professional” site. You want to talk politics, or DEI, or whatever the HR flavor-of-the-month issue is? Take it to another forum.
Item of interest - there's a GitHub repository that is a curated collection 'applied' artificial intelligence papers.
Out of 500 papers - LinkedIn produced the most - 42 papers. Goggle (a leader in AI) was second with 35.
This could suggest that LinkedIn uses AI to manipulate the environment to suit it's narrative...
Gordon, it seems you were lucky enough never to have your feed flooded with copywriters. I could add a few post types to your list.