| But that's not unique to LinkedIn is it? That is every non-anonymous social platform after few years into its conception. Facebook, Instagram, even TikTok is about showing off. I don't like it either, but its just natural. It's like complaining that sun comes up every day. You need to take it for what it is - these platforms do have some good content but, its strongly biased, its only the positive stuff. Either its positive content of low quality or positive content of high quality. That's all. If you understand that its fine. I am not sure why some people think it could be any different. If you think its so easy to show of vulnerability then go to NY Times Square and take of your clothes and stand there naked for an hour. Or ok less dramatic version, record a YouTube video about how you're sometimes selfish person, how you sometimes cheat in your work, how you're asshole to people and post it on all your social profiles. You won't. Therefore you are part of the problem. Because you are not participating in negative, real or vulnerable content. All these things I mentioned are human, none of us are saints and we have moments when we are little selfish or just moments when we are weak, but we don't what others to know. If you want some honesty, you need the anonymity, 4chan, reddit, hacker news and what not. There is no way around it. We dont expect strangers in professional setting to be extremely real, vulnerable and personal to hundreds of their colleagues, so why should it be expected from LinkedIn? LinkedIn is shallow, but you can still get some technical information if you can get over the fact that the stories there are overblown and cherrypicked. Same as Instagram and everything tied to your name and connected to real people you know is. |