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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?
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?
The guy's a k**b but why are you assuming the other guy has the book?
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I love it when people recognize my face from my podcast!!1! 🤗🤗🤗 #blessed #success #suglasses #insertingmypodcastintoeveryconversation
Jake is a well known TV presenter in the U.K. he has worked across the biggest TV stations for the past 15 years or so. He’s promoting his podcast ‘cause it’ll be in his commitment to the production team. I understand that from outside the U.K. it just looks like a random bloke showing off or flexing, but it’s not really that, it’s a media personality being their usual self promoting selves 😀
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I'll give you ten bucks to do a thumbs up and let me snap a photo!
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Why is he a casualty? Did he not have a spare book for the next person he spoke to?
Let me give you Diss book I have right here in by bag.
If Oli "literally took the leap to London" then why is he on the train huh??
I like how the pic shows that Oli actually has the legs for the leap, ya know?
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I assure you that your podcast has “impacted” no none. “Impact” is impacting our language skills in an impactful way and no one remains unimpacted. We have a rich, expressive language. Get a vocabulary.
… And “high performance”, I take it, is the best possible thing a human being can be? The shining holy grail we should all strive towards? If that is how we should evaluate ourselves as a person, I have some questions (I wouldn’t want to get it wrong, in case it’d make me low preformance). What is it we should be performing? And for whom? How do you know if you’re performing high and not low or just adequate? Is there a point system or app that calculates your median performance score? Are there different systems for different situations and occupations? I’d ask more, but ignorance might affect my performance level.
When you self publish you have to order so many copies. Since nobody's buying this self help garbage the only way you can get these birdcage liners out of your mom's basement is to walk around handing them out to homeless people to use as shoe insulation.
Of course a person would keep an extra copy or two of their book on them. If you wrote a book why would you not keep extra copies to give away? You don't sell more books by not telling people you wrote one.
Jake has been on TV in the U.K. for 15 years or so. He started out in childrens TV and then moved over to sport, mostly F1 and football to begin with, now he’s involved with a production company and promotes a few charities. I can imagine that he was recognised when he was on the train and his podcast is pretty popular so it is no surprise that a fan spoke to him.
He started as a children’s tv presenter, moved to Formula 1. I think he has his own tv production company now.
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Jake looks like a guy whose podcast and book I would pay not to experience. I can't stand people with that kind of ego. And either that is a friend or more likely a rando he paid to hold his book and smile while he took this ego stroking selfie. Hope the payment wasn't the book. Reminds me of Gilderoy Lockhart. Probably didn't even write the book himself. Looks like the kind to hire a ghostwriter. And the title itself is cringe city. On second though, with that ego he probably thinks himself a future bestselling author and wrote the drivel himself. EDIT: If we are all at high performance already why do we need his book?
Sorry. In hospital and super salty today. Jake, you be your best self, but I doubt being a self help guru is the best way to go.
Load More Replies...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!
Rather than taking his photo - he could have used your phone to contact his family.......
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
Just buy a meal you scrub
Ok maybe slow here but isn't LinkedIn meant to be professional? I see heaps of jokes about it? 🤷♀️
I don’t know what’s worse, the post or the comment
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.
Well some people voted Boris in , I wouldn't class that as non- cringeworthy
This could be one that goes down in history as being the best to feature on this page
How does one even use their hand when they wear their watch like this?
Get in the bin
I'm sure your wife really appreciated your ability to multitask and send emails while she was birthing your child. What a tool...
This is brilliant
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🤔😒😒
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.
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.
Wearing a poncho should be a strict requirement for all footballers.
It needs a banana.... I reckon it's really tiny........
Good morning…
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....
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.
