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I'm so glad we're finally addressing this nonsense. The LinkedIn bubble is so weird. It reminds me of those weird bird mating dances you see in nature documentaries.

LinkedIn is the only social network where it's not acceptable to question these weird posts. Only politically correct, somewhat career-related content is allowed, and only positive responses are appropriate. Everyone is inspired and blessed and productive. It's a big circlejerk.

That's not a surprise though. You're here to work on your business-oriented personal brand. If you don't need that, you have no reason to be there.

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That's American culture expanding to every region. Even in Europe, now everybody is constantly excited to take on their next challenge and thrilled to announce something.

I wonder when we get to the point where you must declare you are gasping for breath from the electrifying orgasm that another day in the office of MegaCorp Inc gives you.

You nailed it. This jargon is overused and seems to be shared and accepted in nowadays tech announcements everywhere.

Just imagine for a moment Linus Torvalds using those words and applying same text structure to the kernel release announcements instead of good straightforward this: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wi-u86++np80GQvgDuARdt9xp...

This might be related to people not having English as their native language and just absorbing whatever formulations they read most. I thought about it, and in English I would say "I am really exited to share some great news", whereas the sentence I would use in French would be better translated as "please allow me to share a good news with you". So american exageration is more an addition than a replacement for my "native personality".

> Only politically correct, somewhat career-related content is allowed

That's not my experience at all. The examples cited in the article ("president Obama wasn't really black") are, in my experience, the very tip of the iceberg. I don't have to look too far in LinkedIn comments to find people posting ... pretty politically-incorrect shit. It's more the asshole-uncle variety of shit (e.g. "I don't have gay friends because gay people always hit on me", or "I couldn't work for a woman CEO, they're not cut out for it") than the facebook variety (qanon/incohate rage at $phenomenon/etc.), but there sure is a lot of it.

I mean, it's an N of 1 so take it with a grain, but LinkedIn definitely doesn't seem like a bastion of civility or professionalism to me.

lol I saw huge number of 5G or microchip conspiracist under Bill Gates post about coronavirus.

The lurkers are there, they're just not mainstream enough on LinkedIn vs their respective Facebook groups.

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