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LinkedIn is a hallucinogenic social media platform. Because people are using their professional identity on that platform, you can post that 1+1=3 and have people profusely thanking you for your valuable insights.

I have half considered to create a fake LinkedIn account to comment on all the BS that is posted, however life is too short.

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LinkedIn is a strange place indeed. People interacting like overexcited toddlers, banalities are shared like life-changing epiphanies, people are congratulating themselves on jobs well-done.

I considered writing a short story about an alien race that prepares for first contact with earth solely from learning about humans on LinkedIn.

I’d read that story - LinkedIn is a very weird place.

There's already a number of parody LinkedIn accounts. The real accounts are so crazy I really wasn't 100% sure this was a parody when I first read it: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alexander-cohen_work-money-ho...

>I have half considered to create a fake LinkedIn account to comment on all the BS that is posted, however life is too short.

A second best idea is to join the subreddit /r/LinkedInLunatics and have some fun.

I really want to comment on some of these idiotic posts but it basically goes on your “permanent record” so to speak, so I hesitate. Probably the same for everyone else, and why there is nothing at all to stop the rampant fake positivity which ruins the platform.

I made the mistake of connecting with an old engineering colleague who has since become a "life coach" and I'm so sick of their life lessons posts and fake positivity but feel like I can't remove them from my network.

You can unfollow them and I think that will keep them out of your feed. I’m on a job hunt so I have to be active on LI right now. I consider the future, where I can ignore it again, a motivator to get a new gig.

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