Active on LinkedIn

I have recently started becoming more active on LinkedIn - a social media i really like btw - and i hope i will continue to post there as well. As with this blog, i will do weekly posts. The posts there tend to be a bit different than my blogposts, but that is just the nature of the platform i believe.

LinkedIn is more of a professional network, than what this blog is. I will try to not be too formal on LinkedIn though, that place needs to become a bit less cringy, and actually be more realistic and fun. By all means, it is nice that people is taking that platform more serious than other platforms - but it needs more humans than bots.

When i say “bots”, i mean people that write in a way that is so mechanic and cold that it is breaking the very spirit of anything that is living. It shouldn’t be written at all, if that is the “passion” they put into their posts. The posts that are fine-tuned by ChatGPT or some other text-tool. “I am grateful for the opportunity, although the last years have been wonderful at xxxxx” - yeah yeah, save us the trouble. By all means, inform us of your new job; but cut the crap.

Write something meaningful or informative. Don’t make us read all mumbo-jumbo for the sake of just reading it. Because i can guarantee you one thing; no one actually reads the whole thing, and no one actually cares.

Bring meaning. Bring passion. If its love, or its hate, even. Just bring passion - and for god’s sake; bring yourself. So many people just copy other’s points of view, or just jump on the wagon of the newest trends. Be more original. That’s what I will try to do with my posts. I might not always succeed, but i will try.

So, here goes a digital toast for my coming routines posting on LinkedIn! May they last for a long time, and hopefully throughout the year of 2025!

John