People often say they hate social media or they only use it because they 'kind of have to', which always sounded like BS to me. If that's the case why is (nearly) everyone on them?
It's like p*rn. No one watches it, and yet p*rn sites are the most visited websites in the world.
This is so embarassingly true that entities and organisations that conduct surveys often leave them out altogether.
It sounds nicer to say YouTube features in the top 3 most visited websites than it does to say that the other website that starts with 'You' does.
So I'm not gonna say I use Instagram or YouTube because 'I kind of have to', because it would be a lie.
But I am going to admit there's one social network I use because 'I kind of have to' and that's LinkedIn.
Unpopular opinion (or not, I don't know): resumes the way we used to write them are incredibly outdated. I can't remember the last time I sent a CV. Maybe 10 years ago.
Another reason why they're outdated is that the format keeps changing. For years, the European Union had this EU (I think they called it Europass...?) format, which looked silly.
And LinkedIn streamlines the way you talk about what you did, because most people aren't very good at summarising, which is why most CVs end up looking longer than War & Peace. And that problem is a little less evident online.
But LinkedIn makes me so sad. It's depressing.
For starters, it's full of 'Open To Work' banners in the profile picture circle, which is sad.
That's bad. But the one thing that's worse is people who write posts that sound so unnatural.
In the same way no one says 'I hope my message finds you well' in real life, people never say 'after successfully doing this and that, I'm happy to announce a new chapter in my life'.
People who say 'a new chapter in my life' unironically should have hot coffee spilled on to their shirt.
Most people on LinkedIn sound fake, pompous, or desperate. Or all three.
That's why I'm on LinkedIn but I haven't posted anything in months. Maybe years. I occasionally like my ex-colleagues' or colleagues' posts, and like my company's posts. That's it.
And that's already too much.
