I still make the mistake of browsing LinkedIn from time to time, and it feels to me like the amount of garbage - snake oil selling, idiotic leadership "influencing", and overall hogwash peddling - has exploded over the past few months. 9 out of every 10 posts is some insufferable waste by someone who doesn't produce anything of value, but who acts like they're an expert. Is it just me? Am I getting old? I'll blame AI, since the vast majority of the nonsense I see is AI-related. But not always.
I fell the same. And everybody are experts of everything, even though they have never work direct with some subjects. Sometimes it gets me, make me fell that I could have been doing this and by not doing it (being a consultant, super expert, top voice, whatever) with my 20 years of being graphic designer, I am the wrong one. I navigate from fomo to the felling that I know some of these people are totally fake. And yes, we are getting old (for me, its another issue, my current work team is 80% gen Z, and my current director is 2 years younger than me). I like to think that I'm getting old like a good wine, not like a bad cheese. =) AI has to do with it, but mostly would blame people to it. That´s a lot of bad stuff here in Linkedisney (and on internet itself). So many tools for desing, video and stuff. Make it feels easy or super simple. And we know it is not, some concepts you have to fully understand, to prepare something that´s really "unique" or that has value.
Brian Solomon
3mo
This is why you can’t let the LinkedIn Algo dictate your thoughts, career, or creative goals or you will make the same dribble everyone else does to catch a glance from people that don’t truly care about you anyway. No offense to the industry that’s formed around tech influencers, but nothing you see amazing in the world first started with seeing a LinkedIn influencers industry update post.
Todd Greene 💡
3mo
If you think it's bad here, wait until you log into X/Twitter these days!
Pedro Sacramento
3mo
I agree. It 's been tough to deal with the amount of noise here. I think "nonsense" is a good word. On the other hand, sometimes I randomly find some interesting things like the post below. I'm impressed that I found it on Linkedin, and not on Youtube though. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ultra-v_interactive-artwork-installation-ugcPost-7270078436038057984-CZm5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android
nando correa
2mo
🤜🏼✨🤛🏼 same feelings
Rylan Crooks
2mo
You nailed it in the first 8 words 😅
Rodrigo Saboya
3mo
With an invite to their newsletter, of course.
Otto Othman
3mo
I get a lot of those as well. Very annoying.
Rodrigo Alarcon
3mo
Virou Facebook
Ex-agency executive turned professional dungeon master to children. Yes, you read that correctly. Also running D&D activities for corporate teams.
2moLook, if you didn’t like my TED talk just say so Zeh.