> There’s a special circle of hell, and it’s your LinkedIn feed at 8:07 AM on a Monday.

So don't read it.

LinkedIn is a digital rolodex, that you use to store resumes and apply to jobs. If you are checking it daily and reading all the posts, that is self-inflicted pain.

Prediction: When Gen A/B come of age, LinkedIn will make a massive comeback with 'hey look at me being a corporate exec!' style of posts. you will see 'corporate-maxxing' become a thing, as the next-next generation rebel against their doom-and-gloom gen-z seniors.

What are you, reading all this?

LinkedIn is a tool for introductions and cold emails, and it works great as such. Everything else is purely decorative.

Oh look, it's another "I'm allergic to using the 'mute/unfollow' button" screed.

As with X or any other social media site, LinkedIn is what you make of it. You can either curate your feed to filter out noise or you can whine about the masses doing whatever it takes to find a better job while pretending that you're above self-promotion.

the only real life spontainious mention of linkdin was the woman trying to sell me a printer a staples who extolled lnkedin and the 750 friends?, contacts she had there...but could not actualy help me understand the purpose beyond a lot of superlatives,that and there is a thriving business in doing portrait photography for peoples profiles that I learned of from someone inquireing about having a mobile photography studio built. but ya, strong cultic whiff comming off of it

Truer words have never been spoken.

It's a prime vector for scam attacks on desperate people looking for jobs. So many posts on Reddit /r/scams of people getting their contact info scraped or scam companies just loitering on LinkedIn.

Unfortunately a lot of people's job and credit / achievement relies on LinkedIn post. If it is not on LinkedIn you haven't done anything. And seems especially true in UK.