I am about up to my neck now of people scapegoating social media as a concept, to excuse themselves from their shitty behavior. Because I sincerely doubt that malicious intent, misinformation and this overwhelming level of ‘toxicity’ was the core design of every social media platform in their humble beginnings.
I have been online long enough to know, that from BBS Boards to IRC Servers to Yahoo/AOL Chat Rooms to MySpace to Facebook that people who have registered onto those places, have always taken their collective dumps in them. And never owing to them so it must all be because these places just exist, right?
Wrong.
Except it’s also an important tool to ensure continued employment, and so people have taken to turning the public part of it into an unorganized sycophancy contest.
It was supposed to have been an important tool. But too bad the idea of this so-called “innovation” got in the way and LinkedIn got stuffed with a bunch of features that nobody asked for.
When originally, it was to have been a network of strictly employees, employers and those looking for work so that everything can be narrow and linear with communication. It was about finding jobs, acquiring jobs and people who show their profiles that served as better presented resumes.
Now it’s none of that almost.
yeah I don’t even get posting on linkedin. Its like anyone paying attention is not worth currying favor with. Its all just a big circle jerk.