Oh, say it ain\u2019t so!<\/p>\r\n
For those of us who either quit Facebook after realizing its pernicious impact on our time, mental health and even societal well-being, or the wiser ones who chose to never join, this may sound ominous assuming you\u2019ve been a LinkedIn user for a while as part of your effort to grow your professional network.<\/p>\r\n
LinkedIn has always also been a social media platform, with several functional similarities with Facebook, including the ability to post\/share your thoughts, have people connected or removed like or share them and of course comment on them. And since the people using both are well, people \u2013 it\u2019s not surprising that similar behavioral incentives work across platforms. The desire to get likes, to be lauded or at least seen\/shared and to be engaged with.<\/p>\r\n
The difference was always meant to be in the content and the tone\/tenor of the content. While Facebook understandably was a free for all, with no restrictions on what you could share (private, personal, professional \u2013 anything really), LinkedIn was designed to be professionally oriented. While a loose definition, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s wrong to suggest that some of what we see people posting\/doing on LinkedIn today doesn\u2019t quite meet that bar. Some examples include:<\/p>\r\n
Can we stick to finding new jobs, suitable candidates, deep-pocketed investors or expanding your networking opportunities in general, but all on the business front? I do believe a silent majority on LinkedIn will welcome that.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-marketing"],"yoast_head":"\n