What annoys you about LinkedIn? 😤

Clickbait-y posts!

Spam posts or virtue signalling posts from companies. Also faux posts that are actually ads (but we're all guilty of that :D)

Too much spam, specially in groups. I can understand we all want traffic, but I believe LinkedIn would be a lot more useful if people would use it to network, rather than to place links to their blog posts or motivational memes.

It looks more and more like facebook and instagram : people tell their private life, compare and tell obvious things, it becomes tiring... I'm looking for good tips! Do you have any idea to avoid this kind of posts?

The irrelevant posts that are just made by firms to gain followers and do not add any value to the user.

Two things. Firstly, posting old and cliched inspirational quotes. People should post original thoughts about how to get and be inspired. Secondly, posts that are of a very personal nature and not relevant to share on a professional network.

There are too much showing-off posts rather than documenting or sharing values.

Status updates, it's just noise. It's great for a living portfolio/CV.

Apart for all of the obvious reasons the other ones have mentioned - the biggest issue for me personally is the urge to compare oneself to everyone else in his network. It's more of a personal issue probably, but I feel like LinkedIn is kind of promoting this kind of toxic behaviour...

The clickbait and "motivational" posts. Also, LN doesn't give me notifications properly. For example, I won't be notified when I'm tagged in a comment but I will be notified if somebody likes the comment I was tagged in?? Has anyone else experienced this?

Great question and insightful answers. I'll add two more practical issues that I find annoying. 1) Not giving the remote location option that niches down users who have a different target market than their physical location. And if you don't share location, again, they limit your reach. Crazy. It's a professional network that should help you find and be found by what you do and based on the people you're working with. This location emphasis is long overdue to be handled properly. I recall I send them this suggestion over two years ago. They said they have this requested by other users, they are working on it. I can see that. In my case, I work from Europe with 90% US-based clients, but LinkedIn still sends me and puts me in front of local people. I have zero clients where I leave, and this definitely doesn't help me. 2) LinkedIn 'advising' users to share posts, but burning shared posts anyway. Why educate users on counterproductive actions? Shared posts are most often than not dead posts. I am still figuring out the motivation behind it. I found none.

List can be very long... I would start by Inspiring posts & fake kindness -

well, people are not actively invloved. they just congratulate you on new jobs and info changes.

Promotional Messages

I'll begin: People being too formal. Dude, you are on the social network, not on the academic discussion. Chill 🍻

All those "motivation posts", completely fake and exagerated, and written with a unique purpose: to collect a max of organic likes and comments.

These days, I've seen numerous LinkedIn postings similar to (we are looking to hire Xyz at company Xyz. Like and comment to be considered for the position. And the overwhelming response to these types of posts drives me insane.

LinkedIn being used for personal vanity. Family updates (my child, my spouse, my parent) with a veneer of professional accomplishment are still personal vanity at the end of the day.

every post that starts with "I got accepted to..."