What annoys you about LinkedIn? π€
Marko Rakic
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Robert Balkovec@robert_balkovec
Clickbait-y posts!
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Spam posts or virtue signalling posts from companies. Also faux posts that are actually ads (but we're all guilty of that :D)
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@aleksdahlberg, why do I feel triggered? :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.
@simplytedel I am building a platform to keep networking simple, professional and transparent. Users feedback is that its too simple. I guess we are a generation of likes, posts, compare, follow and comments.
@pintubecom Is that Pintube? Ok, I'll give it a shot.
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@simplytedel LinkedIn should be about giving value, not about self-promotion.
Plezi
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?
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@lisa_gautreau unfollow them. That will keep you connected but you won't see their posts
Plezi
@marko_rakic2 I do it! But the current algorithm of LinkedIn shows me them anyway π
Mentor.AI
The irrelevant posts that are just made by firms to gain followers and do not add any value to the user.
GetReminded
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.
Status updates, it's just noise.
It's great for a living portfolio/CV.
Querio
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...
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@maxim_buz Yeah, LinkedIn is full of toxic behavior-patterns , it has to stop
Hunted Space
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?
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@inesfenner yeah, sometimes I think as longer as you stay on the platform the more notification they send you
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
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well, people are not actively invloved.
they just congratulate you on new jobs and info changes.
@marko_rakic2 probably, not yet. thats all im saying
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@andrewcanday This is changing slowly...
Promotional Messages
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@inam_from_outgrow InMail is so annoying...
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I'll begin: People being too formal.
Dude, you are on the social network, not on the academic discussion.
Chill π»
@marko_rakic2 Then it's a professional network
@marko_rakic2 People on LinkedIn just don't talk like real human beings. "If I may say so myself".
All those "motivation posts", completely fake and exagerated, and written with a unique purpose: to collect a max of organic likes and comments.
@daniel_engels go check out shlinkedin.com. A great parody of that sort of post.
IMO, it's become way too personal. Everyone wants to share life updates like it's Facebook in the 2010s. My feed is annoyingly filled with "heartwarming" or "heartfelt" stories ... like bruh
WorkHub
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.
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@qudsia_ali Feel your words
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..."