What LinkedIn Is Becoming

As far as satire goes, this is not very biting. Nevertheless, the point is appreciated as LinkedIn becomes a professional self-promotion channel for certain types of people to project their take on successful career milestones.

Within my network though, I would say that the rank-and-file usually stay fairly far away from LinkedIn posts whilst self proclaimed "thought leaders", "influencers", and "makers", devote time and attention to the dog and pony show that LinkedIn has become; or perhaps was always intended to be.

Classifying myself and rank-and-file, I only maintain a LinkedIn profile as an online resume. I do not post, do not read posts, and do not engage in their click-bait emails notifying me about how I'm missing N updates from people in my network.

In my opinion, LinkedIn is to the social network what the corporate retreat is to professional life. A highly manicured, to the point of artificial, version of our day-to-day existence.

As corporate drones attempt to portray themselves as the ideal Stepford Wife of the workplace, I hope that posts like the parent continues to be written to point out the bizzaro world that exists on LinkedIn so more of us are reminded to not take it seriously and perhaps checkout altogether.

Junk?