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“The State Of LinkedIn” Twitter Page Exposes The Cringiest And Most Out-Of-Touch Posts On LinkedIn (30 Pics)
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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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Time to time we highlight good things on LinkedIn, this is one of them times
Did BP really censor the name of the store? I shouldn't be surprised, but somehow that still tickles me. 😂
To gain some insight into the wild world of LinkedIn, we reached out to the creator of The State of LinkedIn on Twitter. They told us that this successful account originally started as a spin off to Didn’t Happen of the Year Awards, which we’ve also covered on Bored Panda before. “We got so many LinkedIn based submissions, then over the years it’s gained traction from there!” It certainly has. Since this account was launched in March 2017, it has amassed over 240k followers, and with the unlimited content LinkedIn has to provide, it’s likely to only keep growing.
But oddly enough, the person behind The State of LinkedIn told us that they don’t really use the site. “I have a profile, but I would say I open the app maybe once or twice a month. Considering the stuff that gets posted, it's probably for the best that I don't use it,” they added with a smile.
Considering the fact that LinkedIn is a treasure trove of cringey content, we were curious if the page’s creator has any favorite posts that they’ve ever shared from the “professional” site. “I find the posts that involve stuff their kids have said to be the best,” they shared. “The fact that people believe that a young child is interested in world politics or what goes on on Wall Street amazes me.”
And when it comes to why people post such outlandish things online, they hypothesize that it’s all a tactic to gain a larger following. “I think people started making their posts extravagant for the likes and comments, essentially more comments and likes pushes it to the algorithm,” they explained. “That way, their profile gets pushed out to a wider audience.”
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. 😉
The creator of The State of LinkedIn also has a message to everyone sharing ridiculous posts on LinkedIn: “Please carry on! It’s making a lot of people who like the page happy!” they shared with a smile. If you want to check out even more of these posts after finishing this article, be sure to give The State of LinkedIn a follow right here. And if you’d like to find even more outlandish tales people post online, you can see their other account, Didn’t Happen of the Year Awards right here!
Just eat have created a new thing called “lunch hour”
Not sure how good this is
To learn more about LinkedIn itself, we reached out to an expert, Salina Yeung. Salina used to work for LinkedIn, but she now teaches professionals how to utilize the site to its full potential through her company, TheInAcademy. First, we wanted to know how Salina feels about LinkedIn. “I'm absolutely obsessed with LinkedIn, but I could be biased because I used to work for the platform,” she told Bored Panda. “I enjoyed using it because I got 90% of our business from LinkedIn, all organically. My clients have the same results.”
Salina also believes that we could all be utilizing the professional networking site. “LinkedIn is truly for everybody,” she told Bored Panda. “Less than 5% of LinkedIn members are sharing content on a weekly basis (yup, 95% are lurkers), which means an opportunity for you to dominate the news feed with your marketing message to reach business decision makers.” This also tells us that we can’t judge the whole site on the posts of a small percentage of people. Perhaps the state of LinkedIn isn’t so bad after all!
The signs on the windows are more telling than this little tale.
You’ve just ruined 5 perfectly good tennis balls
Salina also noted that she rarely ever sees cringey or untrue posts on LinkedIn, perhaps because she’s an expert on the platform and has curated her feed to show her what she’s actually interested in, but she understands that they can appear. Apparently, LinkedIn is the most trusted social network though, according to Business Insider. But if you’re unsure of where to even start when it comes to using LinkedIn, today is your lucky day. Salina was willing to share a few of her dos and don’ts for LinkedIn with us, so these may help you view the page as a useful tool rather than a necessary evil full of outlandish posts.
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.
So muggers know which car to hide behind so they can hit you over the head and steal that Rolex.
If you want to get the most out of using LinkedIn, first, Salina notes that it’s important to optimize your profile from A-Z. You should also be focusing on your ideal customers, or your intended target audience. What do they want to see? And how can you wow them? You should also be strategic with your social interactions. Seek out people who can be valuable resources for you. “Understand that a number of likes does not determine your success,” Salina added. And engage with your fellow entrepreneurs within your niche.
Even as a youth I didn't get to have "the sleep of youth". What is this dude huffing?
I too have a 'sleep' head, I exchange it for my 'wake' head when I get out of bed :)
I have so much trouble with the screws when I first wake up. I have to leave my sleep head on until the caffeine kicks in and I can see the tiny fasteners on my wake head. Wouldn't want to to attach it wonky!
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Wow!!! The first thing you do is take a photo of yourself in the mirror!
WELL I HAVE TWO DOZEN BACKYARD AMBIENCE LIGHTS AND THEY ENHANCE THE BEAUTY OF THE LANDSCAPE ALL YEAR ROUND. Also I get up before I go to bed. Beat that, loser.
Why does he need coffee if he wakes up from the fogginess of dreams to the readiness of full consciousness instantly?!
Ahhh, Michael, once again you delve deep to the mysterious heart of the post! (I'm not stalking you. Honestly! 😉)
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Translation: I hate my wife and kids because they get to relax while I go bust my a$$ for all the stuff they have. I can barely contain my resentment the second I have to step through the front door after staying late, again. I bet that b*tch didn't even make dinner for me. I ignore her as I walk past into the kitchen. I nuke a Totino's pizza while I set up the automatic coffee maker because she can't do it right. I look over my snow piled yard and wince as the thought of cold makes my arthritic knee ache. I don't know why she wasted $200 on all these stupid lights. A kid bugs me before she puts it to bed. I pat its head and nod. I simply don't have the time to care. Tomorrow, a new day begins.
Turn off all those freaking lights and let your poor wife sleep before she has to wake up and deal with you again. If you are married there is no reason to be taking mirror selfies just cause you think you look good and post them, waxing poetic on some dumb ish. I want my ten seconds back from reading this garbage.
He left out the part where he dropped a giant deuce. Or is the story a metaphor for that?
How cringy is it to share the banality of your morning routine on a networking site 😖
My morning routine usually has a couple of trips to some other little rooms in my house..... and who makes the coffee?
He may have a coffee maker that runs automatically with a timer. Can't forgive the rest of the pretentiousness though.
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Wait, who was brewing the coffee? His wife and kids are asleep, but he walks downstairs to the smell...?
●Mom, where is dad? ■He's taking selfies for LinkedIn. ●I thought real men didn't take selfies? ■ ... /s. Combined this thread with the other toxic one..
Methinks this guy recorded this to play with his own theme music to play as he walks around the house. Hope his arm is okay. Patting yourself on the back so hard will definitely cause a sprain. You got up for work. Yay. Dude, no one cares. My husband does that every day and doesn't post it or ask for a medal.
Ah yes, I too get up in the morning, at 3:30 and not so instantly. Take a shower to wake some of my brain cells. I do not smell coffee, freshly brewing in the kitchen because I sold our coffeemaker with the timer many years ago and got a Keurig. Which died, got replaced under warranty, died, and then I said F Keurig and bought another Mr. Coffee, but didn't find one with a timer. I then look out the window and the streetlights enhance the wintery scenery, and by enhance I mean make it look stark and cold, hope my car starts in this shat.
Maybe he's an author? Good for him. Airways been envious of people who can pop right up after waking up. Never have been able to.
It reads like a cross between Joey Tribbiani’s “smart” letter, (when he replaced all the words from a thesaurus) and a poetry contest’s entry. And yet still said “wife’s sleep head” instead of sleepy or sleeping. Oy vey.
who brews the coffee if it's already brewed when he wakes up immediately to full consciousness
Oh look, a literary dramatization of the meaningless, daily, office grind. So inspiring~
But how good is that stress for our bodies really? He may be just like heaps of working men who go too hard and die when they hit retirement.. if a heart attack doesn't get him first.
When it comes to Salina’s “don’ts” for using LinkedIn, she warns users not to use a boring headline with nothing but a simple job title. “Use ‘third person’ point of view to write your summary,” she added. It’s also not ideal to have hasty work experiences without detailed job descriptions and multimedia. Your profile should also have skills endorsements, recommendations and a customized URL. “Think of your LinkedIn profile as your digital handshake, where your potential employer, client or business partner is going to get a read of who you are,” Salina says.
If you’re sick of trying to navigate LinkedIn all by yourself, you can join Salina’s LinkedIn Signature Programs on TheInAcademy’s website right here!
Last time I checked, Cash machines only give out notes
I don't know what country you guys are in, but where I'm from they dispense coins too
Casualty keeping a spare copy of his book for times like this
Why would you give a copy of your book to the one person who demonstrably already had the book?
Regardless of what you do for a living, LinkedIn can be an invaluable resource. But if you go on the site to scroll through posts by LinkedIn-fluencers and various professionals trying to flaunt their wealth, you might leave with a bad taste in your mouth. Keep upvoting the photos you find particularly cringey, and feel free to let us know your thoughts on LinkedIn in the comments below. Are you an avid user of the site, or do you avoid it at all costs? Then if you’d like to check out Bored Panda’s last article on The State of LinkedIn, you can find that right here!
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My mom disabled her Linkedin 7 years ago. She still gets job offers from the damned thing. She has terminal cancer, go away. 😬😬😬😬
... because of this, I don't have LinkedIn. I was forced to have Xing some years back, and filled it with rubbish and stupidity - me wearing a dress, lacking boobs obviously, a speech my cat gave and I transcribed, and similar bollocky stuff. If you hire people by something like LinkedIn or Xing, it's a you-problem ... a.... HAHAHAHAHA, Youproblem, sure, that word exists, hahahahaha. Fück all that shid!
Gave up on LinkedIn after I was contacted for a job, setup an interview, then they were at least 20 minutes late (yes, I should have just left) & never contacted me after the interview. THEY contacted ME! Could at least have had the courtesy to tell me they chose another candidate.
Job centre made me join LinkedIn to prove I was serious about job hunting about 6 years ago. I knew this made no sense over my plan to spend about 6 months as agency supply in order to find where I wanted to work, then get a job there. I deleted the app as soon as I got a job, but I can't stop the messages. I never even opened the thing.
My mom disabled her Linkedin 7 years ago. She still gets job offers from the damned thing. She has terminal cancer, go away. 😬😬😬😬
... because of this, I don't have LinkedIn. I was forced to have Xing some years back, and filled it with rubbish and stupidity - me wearing a dress, lacking boobs obviously, a speech my cat gave and I transcribed, and similar bollocky stuff. If you hire people by something like LinkedIn or Xing, it's a you-problem ... a.... HAHAHAHAHA, Youproblem, sure, that word exists, hahahahaha. Fück all that shid!
Gave up on LinkedIn after I was contacted for a job, setup an interview, then they were at least 20 minutes late (yes, I should have just left) & never contacted me after the interview. THEY contacted ME! Could at least have had the courtesy to tell me they chose another candidate.
Job centre made me join LinkedIn to prove I was serious about job hunting about 6 years ago. I knew this made no sense over my plan to spend about 6 months as agency supply in order to find where I wanted to work, then get a job there. I deleted the app as soon as I got a job, but I can't stop the messages. I never even opened the thing.
