I fucking hate LinkedIn

There’s no law stating you have to use the app.

There’s a simple solution-delete it and move on with your life.

I agree. I know someone that was a “consultant” there and thought he would become an exec. Of what? Such a stupid attempt at “social media”. His contract was not renewed and then he was on LI talking about how great it was work there and how he hoped he would return. Lame!

I haven't updated mine in 10 years and don't give a fuk! But I'm probably losing business by not utilizing it. Grrrrr

Are you forced to visit it? You sound moronic.

Honestly OP if it causes you to react this way you should steer clear of it.

It was ok years ago before they started a "feed" and it was only a repository of resume type of stuff. Now I really hate it and avoid it.

Couldn't agree more OP. I also fucking HATE LinkedIn.

Not only do I hate LinkedIn, I hate people who bare their professional ambitions.

I seriously question the effectiveness of LinkedIn. I never got a job through it, never gained a customer from it.

It's just a pain in the arse R9. If you're a corporate professional you have to have a LinkedIn profile and that attracts time waster recruiters who don't know anything about your profession and want you to apply for dead end jobs that nobody else wants. It drives me up the wall. I have never gotten a job or customer from it either. Total time waster.

It's such a privacy killer. I'm not comfortable with the whole world knowing my entire employment history, background etc.

I did actually get a good job from a random recruiter reaching out on LinkedIn. One time. I have never gotten a job through my network though. Ever.

My company wants us all to blast PR and share shit IP on LinkedIn. So useless and annoying. I avoid it unless I have to. They prob will start including LinkedIn activity as a KPI.

Trying to build a consulting business so I spend too much time on LI. It is soul sucking. The amount of goody two shoes spouting off about things like what makes a great leader and how company culture makes a difference. They are all brown nosing someone in their heads when they post that stuff. If I could, I would delete my entire profile forever and never look at that site again. Nothing annoys me faster than LI.

It may die in a grease fire, OP.

And the people who go on and on about how they work for the greatest company in the world and how fortunate they are, and then they're out the door in two years for somewhere else that makes them a better offer.

Agreed. A forum for countless displays of American mediocrity and unchecked egos.

Thank goodness I have a very stable job and don’t have to rely on LinkedIn.

I’m sick of all the humble bragging on there: “So honored to be named Person of the Year!” “It amazing listening to the advice of Barack Obama when he gave us a lecture.” Blah blah blah

I got a job once from LinkedIn. Worked there a little over a year.

An anonymous person looks at my profile nearly everyday. Could they be a recruiter? A stalker? Ex boyfriend?

I go on to hate scroll and fuel me up to finally quit the corporate world early in the new year. It was horrific enough when people posted their own crap but so much on there seems AI/ChatGPT generated now the fun of mocking individual brown nosers is gone as pretty much everyone sounds like a bot.

Communist!

You teach 'em communism!

You're a fucking communist!

Everyone hates LinkedIn. Although I do get hit up by recruiters all the time.