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Once upon a time, LinkedIn was a professional resource used to virtually track our career trajectories. It was an easy way to make connections with fellow professionals and allow companies to check out where you’re working and what you’ve accomplished recently. It’s not technically a social media site, however somewhere along the line, it started transitioning into a place where successful (we’ll use that word generously) people decided to start flaunting their wealth and sharing incredibly cringey posts…

That’s where The State of LinkedIn Twitter account comes into play. The page calls the site "a breeding ground for lies & brown-nosing", so down below, we’ve gathered some of the most hilarious tweets exposing false and ridiculous posts from LinkedIn that might give you secondhand embarrassment. Keep reading to also find interviews we were lucky enough to receive from the creator of The State of LinkedIn and LinkedIn Business Strategist, Salina Yeung.

Be sure to upvote the posts you find most atrocious, and let us know in the comments if you’ve ever encountered cringey or downright false claims on LinkedIn. Then, if you’d like to check out another Bored Panda article detailing what a cesspool LinkedIn has become in recent years, you can find our last post featuring The State of LinkedIn right here!

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CPooh
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3 years ago

That’s not cringe, that’s hilarious!

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    Echidna learns extreme ironing
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    3 years ago

    I think Adam got the last laugh.

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    Time to time we highlight good things on LinkedIn, this is one of them times

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    Kise Miarse
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    3 years ago

    Did BP really censor the name of the store? I shouldn't be surprised, but somehow that still tickles me. 😂

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    a fruity dream of delusion
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    3 years ago

    damn i should start using this on my resume

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    Deborah Harris2
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    3 years ago

    I wonder if he got the job for being such a good hooman :)

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    Squee She
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    3 years ago

    And then everyone clapped, right?

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    Lakota Wolf
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    3 years ago

    Not even funny as a "joke".

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    Max A.
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    3 years ago

    Would a kind chap please explain to me what this means?

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    Kise Miarse
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    3 years ago

    Hmm . . . well, the kid would be ahead of his time. I'd say we've still got a few decades before trees are fictional. So I'll give him that one. 😉

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    Just eat have created a new thing called “lunch hour”
    Not sure how good this is

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    Natalia Shoemark
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    So it's just a lunch hour then?

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    a fruity dream of delusion
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    3 years ago

    someone has a very big insecurity complex??

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    Liz
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    3 years ago

    You look like a normal human being because you are. Nothing any of us ever do or achieve will change the fact that we are one of billions—currently living, previously living, and who will live one day. Any other way of thinking is coming purely from ego.

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    Paul Richards
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    3 years ago

    This kind of page tells me b******t artist

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    Serial pacifist
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Glasgow is a great social network

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    Echidna learns extreme ironing
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    3 years ago

    Ready on now mate......

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    Echidna learns extreme ironing
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    The signs on the windows are more telling than this little tale.

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    You’ve just ruined 5 perfectly good tennis balls

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    Kise Miarse
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Yeah, they're trying too hard, but I don't think this one's that bad.

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    Love this

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    Max Fox
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    People!!! This poking fun at all of those posts about poor old people drinking alone at Wetherspoons, and how we should all go and buy them a drink.

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    Gil Heuvelmans
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I don't get this. I'm a cabbie. Even during the worst of the pandemic i still had 15-20 rides a day. No more airports, barbers or bars but still groceries, doctors, train stations or road assistance calls.

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    Michael Largey
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    3 years ago

    So muggers know which car to hide behind so they can hit you over the head and steal that Rolex.

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    Heather
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    3 years ago

    I would spam him with unqualified applicants with ridiculous resumes. New email addresses are free and I've got time to be petty.

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    Lakota Wolf
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    3 years ago

    Even as a youth I didn't get to have "the sleep of youth". What is this dude huffing?

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    Meike H
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    3 years ago (edited)

    The old men read these kind of stories on twitter and decide to go there too acting helplessly, because apparently you can get freebees. It's a self perpetuating phenomenon.

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    Echidna learns extreme ironing
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    3 years ago

    Honestly......

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    Typical LinkedIn bollocks

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    Deborah Harris2
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Worst poem i've ever read :D

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    Last time I checked, Cash machines only give out notes

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    Ranger Kanootsen
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I don't know what country you guys are in, but where I'm from they dispense coins too

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    Casualty keeping a spare copy of his book for times like this

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    Evie
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited)

    I love it when people recognize my face from my podcast!!1! 🤗🤗🤗 #blessed #success #suglasses #insertingmypodcastintoeveryconversation

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    3 years ago

    They probably aren't now.....

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    Mo Taylor
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    3 years ago

    Maybe he's describing his own?

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    Deborah Harris2
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I'm so sorry for the loss of your charger :(

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    Echidna learns extreme ironing
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Rather than taking his photo - he could have used your phone to contact his family.......

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    Kise Miarse
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    This kind of sounds like an anxiety disorder, to be frank.

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    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Yeah she didn’t say that. The best quote my 7 year old brother said was from a movie. “Im ugly, ur ugly, we’re all ugly, ugly is the new beautiful. Besides, how would a 7 year old know the word perseverance? I only found out about that word today

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    Just buy a meal you scrub

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    Kise Miarse
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    His personal finance tip is . . . theft? Hmm. Yeah that tracks.

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    Sheena Leversedge Wood
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I don't get it.

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    Jp@nda
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    She's the positive one, you're a whole box of douche, ya know if this was real

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    Natalia Shoemark
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Ok maybe slow here but isn't LinkedIn meant to be professional? I see heaps of jokes about it? 🤷‍♀️

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    Jason
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    My toddler was playing with my watch and somehow replied to all to a work email with a giant list of clients saying "luv u"

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    I don’t know what’s worse, the post or the comment

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    Michelle C
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    The best way to deal with this is simply to say: “Have a great day.” That way, you can remain dignified and professional, thus avoiding conflict and stress.

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    Deborah Harris2
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Well some people voted Boris in , I wouldn't class that as non- cringeworthy

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    No he didn't

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    Squee She
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    What an out of touch, narcissistic, d0uchecanoe.

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    How did my bags make their way into the picture

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    Kise Miarse
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    They hashtagged the bags too lol

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    Heather
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I feel like I struggle and take too long in the mornings but it's taking this one 5 and a half hours to get up and get to work so now I don't feel so bad😂

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    Jesus...

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    Eb
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Literally using your grandmother's death to promote yourself on the same day?

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    My goodness

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    Echidna learns extreme ironing
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    That de-escalated quickly.

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    Sorry but this made me sick

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    Kise Miarse
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I dunno. It's cheesy, but kinda funny.

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    Matthew Goodall
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    What the hell is wrong with buying presents for teachers?

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    RMA
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Was the kid 7 years old?

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    Eb
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I'm guessing it's not the women?

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    James016
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    As I put my unwell son to bed last night I said to him “good night, wish you better” He replied “ I’ll give you a good night” and then did a fake fart. Tears followed #MrMen #MrRude

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    Kise Miarse
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    What is this even taking about?

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    Chelini Family
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    3 years ago

    Pity us poor folk with out our helicopters

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    This could be one that goes down in history as being the best to feature on this page

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    BluEyedSeoulite
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    How does one even use their hand when they wear their watch like this?

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    DJR
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    3 years ago

    Few things scream "stupid rich person" quite like a Land Rover. There is no finer SUV ever created than the Toyota Land Cruiser. Spending more for less reliability and capability is just plain dumb.

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    Jp@nda
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    No it wasn't you silly. What is real is the situation going on with that dress 👀

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    Get in the bin

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    Kise Miarse
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    What the h e l l just happened there.

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    Erica Ventura
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I'm sure your wife really appreciated your ability to multitask and send emails while she was birthing your child. What a tool...

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    Echidna learns extreme ironing
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    That's a rather mature looking "kid".

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    This is brilliant

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    Jp@nda
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Wait, what just happened? Who are you? or was this just some random event that a kid all dressed up for prom(but with no date??) Happened to just be walking around looking for a ride instead of just borrowing his parents car like everyone else. And he just wanted a ride to prom? how did you meet his parents? And where the freak is his prom date?? I'm so lost🤔😒😒

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    overcat
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    he just wanted to make sure there was a nice shot of his pool

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    Piggy Tee
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    That's the same grandpa that someone bought 24 beers for and the grandson was angry!! LOL

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    Kise Miarse
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Obvious ridiculousness aside - how do you type while using a desk like this? I can barely tap my phone screen to change music while walking on a treadmill from all the bouncing around my steps cause.

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    James016
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    3 years ago

    This or Adam Levine's for most cringe flirty texts

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    James016
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Also standing next to someone else’s Lambo

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    Echidna learns extreme ironing
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    3 years ago

    And making sure that corporations and investors don't contribute their fair share towards the welfare of others so that they have to work weekends to keep going - nice work.

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    Echidna learns extreme ironing
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    3 years ago

    3 years later and we still haven't Ben

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    Echidna learns extreme ironing
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    3 years ago

    Wearing a poncho should be a strict requirement for all footballers.

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    Echidna learns extreme ironing
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    3 years ago

    It needs a banana.... I reckon it's really tiny........

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    Echidna learns extreme ironing
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    3 years ago

    Yeah - and he's ready for it too

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    James016
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    3 years ago

    Were you one of the people that recently got fined millions for PPE fraud?

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    Good morning…

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    Erica Ventura
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    That house isn't big enough for 26 bedrooms, let alone seven kitchens. The way they describe their house sounds like The way a little kid describes their dream house. With no actual sense of reality....

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    James016
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    3 years ago

    I feel sorry for the barista that her only customer is a colossal k**b

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    Kise Miarse
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    3 years ago

    I don't get this one.

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    Piggy Tee
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    The pigeon is in the hospital???

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    Piggy Tee
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Why didn't they try to speak to the lady for ten minutes??

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    Reda Karam
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    3 years ago

    Deja vu