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I feel like I've seen that picture of the Turkish shooter over 200 times in the last week while I look for a new job on LinkedIn.

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Would you prefer that regular LinkedIn content appear instead of the Turkish shooter?

I have suddenly gained a new appreciation of the wave of spam of the Turkish Olympian.

Off-topic: I really hate those linkedin influencers telling me what a "senior software engineer" is or is not, or how I should use TDD or not use TDD. I keep removing them from my feed, but there's an endless stream of them.

You’re fighting a losing battle. LinkedIn ‘s feed is about as useless as Facebook or twitter’s… because they basically copied it whole cloth. All it is is an algorithmic shot at engagement so they can get paid for ad impressions. The aim is not to keep you up to date with what your contacts are up to.

Seriously, who is putting effort into this?!

Sssh. Thanks to their sacrifice, we can all pretend LinkedIn is a social network and visit it when we are not actively job hunting.

There was a period a few years back where LinkedIn was the easiest place on the internet to get organic reach. As such, the marketing guru set were all recommending LinkedIn as the best place to “build an audience”. I haven’t checked, but I’d guess the juice has been mostly squeezed out by now.

I don't even know what kind of "audience" people are trying to build? Who even reads, let alone cares about these generic business grindhustle posts? And what is the "audience builder" getting out of any of this? I mean, if you read this, are you really going to offer the writer a job?

Crush It with These 5 GAME-CHANGING Strategies!

Hey #LinkedInFam! Ready to LEVEL UP? Here’s how:

Hustle Harder: Rise and grind at 4 AM—no excuses, just results!

Network Like Crazy: Your connections are your gold. Build them everywhere!

Disrupt the Norm: Obliterate the status quo and challenge every rule!

Own Your Brand: Develop a killer personal brand and make everyone know your name!

Keep Learning: Invest in yourself—read, attend, and evolve. Knowledge is power!

Push boundaries and share this with someone who needs a boost! #Hustle #Success #PersonalBrand #Disrupt

I think it's the same thing that makes people take on "support" roles on message forums for tech products (Microsoft, etc.). They're worse than bots, and I don't know what motivates them, but you will always find them.

+1 Furthermore, the posts are extremely unfunny, I wouldn't mind them if they were at least somewhat interesting.

Oh I love the mental gymnastics that some of these posters accomplish to try and fit a lesson they wanna teach to the picture, and somehow attach themselves to that person's notoriety.

I saw it on Reddit making fun of one of those LinkedIn corporate culture posts.

/r/linkedinlunatics is one of the few subreddits I regularly browse and makes me feel a bit less crazy.

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