What annoys you about LinkedIn? 😤

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I would hate to have to go on there... it's an establishment propaganda rag... I avoid it...

Clickbait-y posts!

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?

Promotional Messages

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

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

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...

People really showing off what they have achieved in their life, it kinda was good in the beginning when some of your friends and connections were showing but being bombarded with people moving ahead in their lives, I think it somewhat gives inferiority complex. Also those posts of Like for this option, celebrate for that option, dude just why

the poll posts designed to drive inauthentic engagement i.e. what do you think of wfh and then the OP asks users to react to the post to indicate their answer as well as the same advice posts regurgitated by different posters after one such post goes viral.

Linkedin have been a great platform for professionals looking to get some real insights and culture about the professional world but at the same time I have come across the multiple posts where people are being bogus at times and are even posting the irrelevant content. The linkedin is the community for some professional stuff, posting social media kind of posts just simply annoys me.

Seeing people's success stories (I don't know if they are honest) makes me feel that I am way behind in society.

Posts that start with "I'm honored to...."

Everyone's posting about their new jobs and great 'insights'. But when you're actually working with them, you know they have no insights...