This Twitter Account Is Dedicated To Showcasing All The ‘Crap On LinkedIn’ And Here’s 40 Of The Best Finds
If you've ever used LinkedIn out of necessity but thought it was a shallow dump of disreputable content, this Twitter account is for you. Crap On LinkedIn is dedicated to exposing all the lies, toxic-positivity, and straight-up fiction they find on the platform, and they've been making quite a name for themselves recently doing it, too.
"I used to work in sales and we would always share cringy posts around the team," Kirsty Callaghan, founder of RicochetB2B and the main person behind Crap On LinkedIn, told Bored Panda. "We would always wonder why there wasn't [at the time] an online curation of these posts so I put a Twitter account together. It was quite tough finding the posts to share regularly but now we have dozens of suggestions daily from our audience."
Continue scrolling and check out some of the best (or worst?) posts they have tweeted so far.
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LinkedIn was launched in 2003, and Callaghan has also used it. Mainly, for networking and job hunting. "I find it to be quite a poor platform, personally, considering the rich data opportunities on offer. For example, when it was bought by Microsoft, I was convinced they were going to add some feature rich CRM based tools where you could record calls, conversations and information about connections in real time... It still hasn't been done. The advertising is also hugely expensive and judging by the ads I see, really poorly targeted."
To Callaghan, crap on LinkedIn is anything that's blatantly dishonest. Think heart-warming recruitment stories where a company hires someone with no skills just because they showed up dripping wet from the rain because they couldn't afford a car. Or posts that are irrelevant in a business environment -- like how cool someone's kid is. As Callaghan put it, all children are amazing, there's no need to make up a story about how they started a business at 4 years old selling lemonade to show off how great your parenting is. Finally, engagement bait. Like tacky videos of a robot built 10 years ago or a cute dog linked to some tedious business analogy.
In my reading, the tall ones are the stupidly optimistic that believe the plan cannot fail; shorty goes "well but did you check (...)?"
"LinkedIn is unfortunately a really boring platform content-wise," Callaghan said. "While people are scrolling around it, they're looking for stuff that's a bit different that they can engage with. There are tons of blogs online telling you how to use the LinkedIn algorithm to your benefit which certainly doesn't help. Things like long, spaced out posts improve a reader's engagement because they're scrolling through it which in turn improves the visibility to other people."
Callaghan also pointed out that LinkedIn users tend to copy/paste post templates or just the exact same content that they saw viral on the platform, making it so inauthentic, repetitive and cringy.
"People really don't need to resort to posting 'Crap on LinkedIn' to get engagement. How many of those likes and comments result in a sell for that poster? Always ask yourself 'Is this really braggy?' 'Is this false?' 'Do my buyers care about this?' and delete where appropriate," Callaghan added. "In the meantime, if you see your post appear on our feed – take it as a lesson, be a good sport and have a nice day."
As Dan Price has proven, people will do even more when you pay them a decent wage.
"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?" "I think so, Brain, but what are we going to do with 6 billion payment cards?"
Mine is made out of plywood and cardboard with lots of duct tape. It's out back on the forklift.
He's Ferrari-adjacent at best... If I make a photo of me next to the Statue of Liberty, do you assume it's my statue? So how does this suggest he's even allowed to drive it (rent, lease, borrow)?
An oldie but goodie. " If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. After that give up. You're just making an a*s of yourself.
Maybe he deleted his own account after spotting the verb "Marketing" in the title...
So I can't read any books anymore until I have transformed into a vampire and sucked the blood out of countless virgins? Bummer....
You are in luck... I am reading World War Z. Any zombies in your area? I'm kind of short on them at the moment.
Load More Replies...Ok. I'm currently learning "wingardium leviosa". Nothing has happened yet, but as he said, I will repeat until success.
Remember it's swish and flick! Gotta go, I'm reading the running man, just stopping to post my tape. Need new nose filters too.
Load More Replies...I've actually done this very thing for YEARS! Murder mysteries are my favorite.
Makes them. . . . . . . . . . . . .More profound.
Load More Replies...Commit murder with a phalic statue during a home invasion?
Load More Replies...I just finished Dune, so I guess no more reading for me until I become the Kwisatz Haderach.
don't forget to become the emperor afterwards! and ride sandworms, and travel to other planets, and drink poisonous water, and...
Load More Replies...He reads all these books, but still cannot write in paragraphs. His post was so long, yet said so little.
OK. But the neighbors are going to think it's weird when I'm sitting on top of the doghouse fighting the Red Baron.
'Scuse me, I'm gonna need a sword, magic wand, party dress, school bus, pirate ship, snake, and a gas mask. (I've definitely read more books, just these are the ones I can think of.)
I'm so confused now, reading a (non-fiction) book about animal reproduction in all its odd forms, what do I do to mess it up? 😟
purposely mess up so that you can correct the purposely messed up work and "learn" from it?? What??
So now I need to turn into a cat and start a clan of other cats
But, I'm reading the latest Fazbear Frights book. I have to somehow get in a situation with a murderous animatronic? What will I learn?!
I just finished reading The Silmarillion. I'm confused about priorities here - I'm also confused which charachter I should 'be' when deciding on what my next step would be. Should I first sing a new world into existence? Should I go slay bad guys? Curse my own family? I won't ever be reading anything else, I'm afraid ...
Strange, because when people over 50 apply for a job, the companies tell them the exact opposite..
One of the many stories in "Things that never happened" Volume 13.
This isn't even the worst stuff on LinkedIn. There's a huge industry of "coaching" which is pseudo science mixed with fortune cookie wisdom all packaged up by talentless charlatans to take advantage of people in desperate need of guidance and support in their professional lives. They flood LinkedIn with these posts in the hope of scamming some cash from them. Most of the other posts are "that happened" humble brag asshats who say stuff like..."I had an interview today.....the candidate was nervous....because she was actually a talking goat....i didn't care...i hired her on the spot...good managers don't judge a candidate by their species...agree?" Eughhhh.
Actually, a talking goat would've been an improvement on some people I've worked for. And with.
Load More Replies...I hate entrepreneurship arrogance enough already. I don’t mean ANY person who starts a business. I mean THOSE types. You know. These people in this list. I couldn’t even get through even a quarter of this awful list. It’s just too f*****g embarrassing for humanity.
I like your posts. You speak your mind and it's refreshing :)
Load More Replies...Knew it was useless when the basis was lying...so and so suggested you for linked in.
Former employer put everyone on Linkedin without their permission. Using our resumes and filling in any details he didn't know with his fantasies. The women got so many contacts from creeps it was not funny.
Elis James & John Robins would have loved these. Come on, someone out there must be on email! 🤗
Ive been on linkedin for a long time, but I never really use it other than a way for people I know to keep in touch when I used to lived in different places in the world. It was a bit better then, until linkedin became stupid and offered me up to complete strangers to link up with for whom I had no connection. It was very unprofessional for them to do it. Now its being taken over by virtue signalling people who think they are more special than others with the occasional scandal such as charlotte proudman career destroying move whilst being a hypocrite( no wonder the press went after her). Linkedin is becoming another version of facebook...
This isn't even the worst stuff on LinkedIn. There's a huge industry of "coaching" which is pseudo science mixed with fortune cookie wisdom all packaged up by talentless charlatans to take advantage of people in desperate need of guidance and support in their professional lives. They flood LinkedIn with these posts in the hope of scamming some cash from them. Most of the other posts are "that happened" humble brag asshats who say stuff like..."I had an interview today.....the candidate was nervous....because she was actually a talking goat....i didn't care...i hired her on the spot...good managers don't judge a candidate by their species...agree?" Eughhhh.
Actually, a talking goat would've been an improvement on some people I've worked for. And with.
Load More Replies...I hate entrepreneurship arrogance enough already. I don’t mean ANY person who starts a business. I mean THOSE types. You know. These people in this list. I couldn’t even get through even a quarter of this awful list. It’s just too f*****g embarrassing for humanity.
I like your posts. You speak your mind and it's refreshing :)
Load More Replies...Knew it was useless when the basis was lying...so and so suggested you for linked in.
Former employer put everyone on Linkedin without their permission. Using our resumes and filling in any details he didn't know with his fantasies. The women got so many contacts from creeps it was not funny.
Elis James & John Robins would have loved these. Come on, someone out there must be on email! 🤗
Ive been on linkedin for a long time, but I never really use it other than a way for people I know to keep in touch when I used to lived in different places in the world. It was a bit better then, until linkedin became stupid and offered me up to complete strangers to link up with for whom I had no connection. It was very unprofessional for them to do it. Now its being taken over by virtue signalling people who think they are more special than others with the occasional scandal such as charlotte proudman career destroying move whilst being a hypocrite( no wonder the press went after her). Linkedin is becoming another version of facebook...