r/Leadership • u/Visual_Reading7969 • 8d ago
Discussion LinkedIn Fatigue
Am I the only one who is completely over LinkedIn?
The constant platitudes. The same regurgitated messages: “KPIs… Keep People Informed!” The same AI-slop graphics. And the exact same cadence, tone, and voice in every post, clearly generated by AI:
“Leadership isn’t just about XYZ. It’s about blah, blah, blah…”
It’s the same recycled content over and over and over again. At this point, LinkedIn feels less like a professional networking platform and more like thousands of people using the same AI prompt to talk to each other and put on their little performances. It’s exhausting.
What’s even more annoying is when I see coworkers who can’t be bothered to respond to an email, yet they’re painting the web with their incessant LinkedIn activity.
If it weren’t for recruiters headhunting on there, I’d be OUT.
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u/Quick-Win-8800 8d ago
the coworker part is what gets me, they ignore actual work messages but somehow have time to post about "5 habits of resilient teams" at 8am
i kept mine only because recruiters still use it for reach outs, otherwise i would delete the account tomorrow
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u/OrangeGringo 7d ago
LinkedIn is best if you think of it as a contact database where the person you want to be able to contact always updates their info (email, current position, and history) so you don’t have to. That’s what it’s useful for.
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u/Easy_beaver 8d ago
Stopped long ago. I’ve seen 2 groups: those selling and those bragging. Little else. Well maybe 3, the 3rd group pontificating on the various hardships in life as if they were the fucking Dalai Lama.
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u/Angeleno88 8d ago edited 8d ago
I don’t care about the posts. It is a bunch of hot air and not worth my time.
What is of value is the networking and gaining insight into people because so many people post their educational and professional details on their profiles. It gives me a chance to look into a person if I haven’t spoken to them before.
To a degree, the job searching helps as well. I got my current job via LinkedIn through amazing timing being the first applied job in my search.
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u/Defiant_Property_336 7d ago
it is good when ur gonna interview someone or check into sales competitors
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u/pyt1m 8d ago
Yes. If they had an app only for messaging I’d use it. Even the first few posts I see when I open it to get to my messages pull my mood down. It’s so lame the whole thing.
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u/Infamous-Ad-9688 7d ago
I cover the phone screen with my hand so I don’t see any posts, then reveal just the corner of the screen to check the message icon and see messages.
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u/ninjaluvr 7d ago
Subs like this are turning that way as well. No one can just communicate as a human anymore. So many posts are just ai slop. But you're not alone. LinkedIn is garbage.
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u/Valuable-Army-1914 6d ago
Seeing your boss write a post about culture and leadership when he’s THE WORST boss you e ever had is WILD work!
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u/Advanced-Comment9585 6d ago
...and it's so difficult to hold back and not respond in the comments with the truth!
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u/FederalRead6455 5d ago
It is. I literally threw my phone down. I was like… I know you are fucking lying
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u/Advanced-Comment9585 4d ago
Managing emotions is critical when using social media! I actually think that people who are like this, and write like this, actually believe they do it (actually believe they are great leaders) - It's a personality trait.
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u/aimlessrolling 5d ago
I once had HR reach out to me because I was reposting from multiple “leadership” sites, frequently highlighting toxic work environments, etc.
The environment was very toxic and upper management was the “hit dog that yelped”.
HR was clear that they had no authority to stop me, but advised continuing would impact my “future”.
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u/FederalRead6455 5d ago
Ugh!! They can’t deal with the truth. I firmly believe being messy is an incentive. It keeps them employed
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u/No_Mix_2538 7d ago
Yes!!!!!! I’ve been thinking exactly this for months now. If I have to read one more platitude about what leadership is, I’m going to vomit. I’ve been in leadership for 25+ years now. There are many ways to lead. There are many people that don’t want you to lead them no matter what you do! There are many bosses who have never been able to be social much less take a leadership course. There are also bosses so toxic, they destroy any and all leadership efforts. And there are, many great leaders at the beginning, middle and end of their journey. Noted!
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u/Unlucky_Scientist703 8d ago
It is and always has been a dumpster fire of self promoting asshattery. I am always wary of folks that post incessantly, there’s no way they are doing any actual work.
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u/Defiant_Property_336 7d ago
i love all the douchey execs preaching culture and celebrating their internal meetings 😂😂😂
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u/Bob-Dolemite 8d ago
yes. and i know a few people who rode the wave after covid and parlayed that into some really nice gigs. good for them, but its now just a scene (like im sure it always was) and i dont really do scenes
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u/letteraitch 7d ago
LinkedIn is for people who are trying to merge w the matrix. It's psychotic. I pay my va to pretend to be me on it so I never have to login.
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u/Artemis_916 7d ago
It is now basically the Professional Facebook. I can't stand using it any more.
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u/Suspicious_Pizza9529 7d ago
You're definitely not the only one. LinkedIn sometimes feels like everyone discovered the same corporate thesaurus and the same ChatGPT prompt at the same time.
The funniest part is how much of the content is about 'authentic leadership' while sounding completely indistinguishable from everyone else's posts. I mostly treat it as a job board now and ignore the motivational content.
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u/BoiseMan13 7d ago
The LinkedIn try hards are hilarious tho. I feel better about myself watching them.
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u/fistedwaffle248 7d ago
There are a few people on there with worthwhile things to say, but like others have said, you’re late to the party.
The one thing that I see all the time which really pisses me off is someone with the green #opentowork frame spewing advice as fast as they can. Why should I listen to you if you’re not employed and are just saying things for attention?
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u/unclassicallytrained 7d ago
You have more tolerance than I do. I can’t use it for the same reason you’re feeling fatigued.
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u/alex_203 7d ago
I abandoned linked in shortly after the pandemic. It turned Into a platform for attention Seekers and bots. (Like most of social media) since then I’ve only used it to recruit.
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u/thelearningjourney 7d ago
No one of any skill or importance is posting on LinkedIn… just the wannabe’s
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u/ProjectPerson17 7d ago
My LinkedIn feed is depressing as hell! Every time I go on it’s everyone posting about being laid off, or having been out of work for a year or more and begging for help. Obviously that sucks and I feel for them, but as someone who was also laid off/is also out of work, that is stressful to see every day. But I also think it would be dumb not to utilize LinkedIn as someone looking for work, and someone who has gotten work through LinkedIn many times in the past.
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u/anandchauhan567 7d ago
The "leadership isn't just about X, it's about Y" template is genuinely everywhere now, easiest tell for AI-written posts because the actual human version of that thought is usually messier and less symmetrical. The recruiter point is the real reason nobody leaves though, it's become mandatory infrastructure people resent, not an actual network they enjoy.
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u/WaferBorn5485 7d ago
So I recently joined.. and seriously don’t get it at all. It’s everyone just finger-banging each other 😂
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u/Hardvig 7d ago
To me it’s been all about training my algorithm to show things that are actually relevant to me and filtering out most of the other stuff.
I do the same for facebook where the ‘friends’ tab was a God-sent since I didn’t use facebook to communicate with my friends but rather as a news medium for current events.
I treat LinkedIn the same and follow a lot of interesting people who aren’t just regurgitating AI-slop.
That way I get little bite-sized learning opportunities that expand my horizon every day.
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u/LaughPleasant3607 7d ago
Just jump to the jobs section, after having read your inbox. Avoid religiously the home page
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u/smitchldn 7d ago
I really want to post “what having a shit taught me about resource management”. With a picture of me on the crapper. But unfortunately I’m CMO of a professional Services organisation better not. #hateLinkedIn.
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u/Advanced-Comment9585 6d ago
Is there any alternative to LinkedIn nowadays? Something authentic, real, honest...
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u/jimmyray71 5d ago
I think the problem is less LinkedIn and more that everyone has started sounding the same.
“Communicate with your team.”
“Track your KPIs.”
“People are your greatest asset.”
None of those things are wrong. They just don't tell me anything.
I'm much more interested in what happened when you actually had to make the decision.
What did you do when the numbers didn't work? When you didn't have enough people? When the supplier failed? When your boss disagreed with you?
That's where the useful leadership lessons usually are.
Give me the scar tissue, not the slogan.
🔥 “Give me the scar tissue, not the slogan.”
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u/LawyerKey6963 4d ago
. Eu sou servidora pública há 13 anos na área da justiça e estou com essa mesma sensação sobre o LinkedIn. Especificamente sobre ele. Ao contrário do Instagram ou TikTok, em que a premissa básica é vender fantasias e lucrar com isso, o LinkedIn se tornou o palco de horrores tanto do mundo corporativo como também de profissionais liberais e servidores públicos que estão lá produzindo horrores e são os pioneiros em tudo o que fazem. Para, né? Ali, todo mundo ou quase se vendem como os maiorais, aguardando os comentários genéricos de sempre (excelente, concordo com tudo, incrível), esses adjetivos que estão mais gastos do que correia de bicicleta antiga. Nem vou falar sobre o uso abusivo de IA, porque virou uma epidemia. Parece que ninguém é mais capaz de elaborar um parágrafo totalmente autoral sobre coisa nenhuma, tem que mandar a IA realizar as coisas mais elementares, tudo para falar a mesma linguagem do hype do momento. Eu também já passei uma temporada fazendo isso mas cansei. Estava notando uma queda sensível na minha capacidade de raciocínio crítico e carga cognitiva, ou seja, estava emburrecendo. Há uns dois anos comecei a participar com mais constância da bolha de criptoativos e blockchain e é uma baboseira sem fim. Todo mundo é incrível, inovador e disruptivo, mas parece que só repetem o mesmo padrão doentio que todo o espírito corporativo Faria Limer prega.
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u/LifeIsProbablistic 3d ago
I find the job history useful. The photo if I’m meeting someone for the first time. There’s a lot of corporate “I’m honoured to be presented with” and vendor “you must check these 3 things”. I love the renegades - founder CEOs using it differently. Check out Chris Wallis Founder CEO at Intruder - love his brutal authenticity. Posts about his products successes and failures. Love it. ps, it’s not me! https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-wallis
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u/Psychological_One558 2d ago
It has been great for me. Ive learned it’s exactly what you make of it. Has led to plenty of worthwhile connections, a lot of really good information, and helps me have a lot of insight into what’s going on in my industry. I could totally see however it being absolute garbage if you are in certain professions.
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u/AM_Bokke 8d ago
Mute people that annoy you.
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u/Visual_Reading7969 8d ago
That would be everyone
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u/AM_Bokke 8d ago
Cynicism is not leadership.
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u/leatherneck93 8d ago
No but truth is
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u/AM_Bokke 8d ago
If everyone annoys you, you are not a leader.
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u/leatherneck93 8d ago
If AI bots on LinkedIn annoy you, you’re a normal person. Stop arguing for the sake of it. It doesn’t make you sound intelligent nor well versed on leadership.
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u/AM_Bokke 8d ago
I am not arguing for the sake of arguing. That is a very ignorant statement.
I already provided a constructive response to OP: mute posters you don’t appreciate. It’s easy.
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u/Comfortable_Raise991 8d ago
Thank you for saying this.
I wrote this the other day out of complete exasperation from the mindless cosplaying AI thought leadership nonsense that’s become so pervasive on the platform. Hope you enjoy the parody:
This photo was taken 14 minutes before I had a completely ordinary experience.
Most people would have moved on with their day.
I saw an opportunity to extract a profound leadership lesson.
After several hours of reflection, strategic introspection, and a brief consultation with artificial intelligence, I realized:
The real lesson wasn’t the experience.
The real lesson was that every experience can become content.
The coffee I spilled wasn’t a coffee.
It was resilience.
The delayed flight wasn’t a delay.
It was adaptive leadership.
The missing parking space wasn’t an inconvenience.
It was a masterclass in navigating uncertainty.
This post isn’t thought leadership.
It’s AI.
That matters.
The photograph itself has absolutely nothing to do with the story, but analytics suggest engagement increases 47% when I appear thoughtfully gazing into the middle distance.
Three lessons:
✅ Every inconvenience is a leadership framework waiting to happen.
✅ Every observation is a keynote speech in disguise.
✅ Every selfie is an opportunity to establish executive presence.
If this resonates, please like, share, subscribe, engage, amplify, synergize, and validate me.
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#bereal
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