Professional Normie Microblogging

The vibe on LinkedIn can be a microblogging platform on the struggle bus.

It’s like an open, distributed Slack meets Snapchat, where the revenue-generating users are recruiters who’re being laid off.

It’s also — apparently — the professional network, that’s why Microsoft bought it for many billions of dollars.

As a networking platform, it isn’t necessarily responsive, friendly, or even particularly social.

Out of a fit of pique, I changed my settings to go off the algorithmic feed for a few hours.

OMG.

The LinkedIn algorithm is doing heavy work to filter out so much noise.

I think the “groups” are where the cranks and bots talk to themselves.

What makes my eyes roll over into the back of my head is “influencers” who post walls of text with an emoji doing the work of each bullet-point.

The whole thing is clearly the result of an AI prompt.

It’s like Twitter Blue, but for supposed normies.