The Sad Denise of LinkedIn

I have been an active user of LinkedIn for many years but recently, it seems to have suffered a decline that I do hope isn’t terminal. It has become Facebook on steroids.

The good thing about LinkedIn was its networking and business focus. It was easy to use and easy to find people for whatever business purpose. It was also wonderful to stay in touch with people from the past. I used it all the time and for a while, even paid for premium membership.

Then, suddenly, the platform made things very hard. Searching on people became impossible or at least very difficult. Things that had been free became paid and advertising began to take up much more space. Well, I know its a business and it needs to make money so I suppose I could live with that. I am still upset about how they made it so difficult to search for people even in your won network though.

But recently, my feed is filled with political opinion posts. This to me is intolerable. It’s supposed to be a networking site so when I am suddenly presented with the 3 second opinion of a ‘colleague’ on a political issue and find I deeply disagree, I feel more reluctant to network with them and likely the same is true for them. I know that the left has worked diligently to politicise everything and every issue but I do not want to know your politics. I want to know how we can do business together.

Since the change in US administration, this has gotten ten times worse. Trump derangement is everywhere and honestly I’m not interested in your opinions on him, his decisions and so on. In fact, those with strong opinions either way are making themselves look like people I am uninclined to do business with and maybe vice versa if I respond negatively. In other words, its helping fracture the business community as well. I also note these opinions are often strongly held by people who are NOT US citizens and therefore why are they upsetting their American colleagues with it? I’m sure you hold opinions – I do too – but I would argue that they should not be posted on LinkedIn – Facebook is there for that and I am unlikely to be in your network there.

For me, LinkedIn has become a place I avoid. I don’t need to be reading opinion pieces about politics in a place I came to read about business issues – unless they are business-related and I would argue pro and anti-Zelensky or Trump posts are nothing of the kind.

Anyway, that is my opinion. LinkedIn is being ruined by people posting overt political posts. Let’s keep LinkedIn for business shall we?

What do you think?

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