Let’s be honest, a big chunk of LinkedIn is built around this dance. 💃🪩🕺
Working in sales can be hard, I get that... but there are some practices I simply can't understand.😵
I'm just as tired as the next guy from receiving DMs about potential "collaboration" and "exploring synergies", but at the end of the day, we have to respect the hustle.
It all depends on what you're looking for. I can crew a film in a day using my connections from LinkedIn. I can find undervalued acting talent that just needs a chance to prove their craft on LinkedIn. I don't need to find a distributor that will put me in a jail term deal until I have a screener to show them. I don't need to find a producer or executive producer who tells me what he CAN'T do or CAN'T make happen. I don't need people "in the know" that change the values of terms that have no set value like, "bankable talent" to increase the budget for a bigger percentage and thinks you can lower risk by raising the level of risk higher. I never liked dancing unless I needed it to rain. If people want to sit and talk about getting things done, pull up a chair and let's begin to plan this out otherwise you tap your toes in a different direction.
Social networks have evolved as expected. People have become the product to sell. Hence the constant self-advertising using cheap slogans and big empty words. Beyond that eventual 'contacts' are 'managed' through a courtesy link to click as an invite similar to Verhoeven's 'Starship Troopers' : Do you want to know more? Zero human interface, zero 'let's talk about it on Meet. Zero. Absolute zero. And of course be careful what you write, use the 'buzzword du jour' or meet the wrath of annoyed people. At the beginning Internet promised to free human creativity. Guess on that front is a big F since it has freed the kraken whose brain is pretty much a pea.
I would say that > 50% of posts are dross. Probably including mine. #lowqualitycontent
Agree that part of it is super annoying, I am getting probably 50-60% of messages trying to sell me something which clearly shows that people did not made a minimum research about our company and whom to contact. And then 5-10% of them are offering me a job :), which is again quite funny. But still, the 20-30% I can use to connect and/or learn about great people/talents and hopefully convince some of them to join us is more valuable then all other apps on my phone together (altough WhatsApp and solitaire/freecell are wrong competitors for my time 😄😄😄)
Most social media platforms these days feel like you’re endlessly scrolling through digital billboards. What once was a lively space for genuine online engagement has morphed into something just a notch above a late-night infomercial, hawking everything from business products to your connections' latest book. Now, when someone wants to connect, if I’m even remotely interested, I insist they make a proper introduction and clearly state their purpose. I'm not against a good sales pitch, but you'll have to state your intentions before we connect. 😁
Let's be honest majority of social networks is about wasting each others time
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2wThis meme could also read: "I am a stupid or lazy sales rep who cannot or will not read LinkedIn profiles properly." First, send an email, and then see what happens. 🙄