--- title: Why is LinkedIn so cringe? | daily.dev description: The LinkedIn newsfeed is full of cringe-worthy content. The site’s setup forces everyone on the site to wear the professional “CV mask” LinkedIn is basically... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-is-linkedin-so-cringe--zivrddyhp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why is LinkedIn so cringe? | daily.dev og:description: The LinkedIn newsfeed is full of cringe-worthy content. The site’s setup forces everyone on the site to wear the professional “CV mask” LinkedIn is basically... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-is-linkedin-so-cringe--zivrddyhp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZIVRdDyHp.png og:image:alt: Why is LinkedIn so cringe? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why is LinkedIn so cringe? **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 11 min read · 86 upvotes · 12 comments ## Summary The LinkedIn newsfeed is full of cringe-worthy content. The site’s setup forces everyone on the site to wear the professional “CV mask” LinkedIn is basically tied to your identity and your identity is tied directly to your resume. I think the cringe is due to 3 factors: The personality, what LinkedIn asks you to be and the customer. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@kramer** · 4 upvotes > I highly recommend following this Twitter profile called The Best of LinkedIn: https://twitter.com/BestofLinkedin > > > Super funny satirical tweets about posts on LinkedIn. **@ghost** · 3 upvotes > Turns out, you have to be "cringe" in order to be an influencer on ANY platform. **@cnrdev** · 3 upvotes > The author dives into the cringey nature of LinkedIn, covering awkward motivational posts and "broetry", all create to drive engagement withput providing any real value. **@inkblot** · 2 upvotes > Typical of when Microsoft acquires anything...goes to shit. I mean no dark mode even!! **@msp99000** · 1 upvotes > Nice article, one of the reason I don't use LinkedIn anymore, there's no good stuff, just rookie stuff over engineered. 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