LinkedIn Creator Program Has an Infancy Problem — Crappy Content

It’s the new Mecca for cringeworthy content

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I try to keep a low profile on LinkedIn. A “congratulations on your new position” here and a “congrats for the promotion” there — and a few more thank yous when I have a career milestone or promotion that shows up and results in comments and compliments.

Recently, however, long-form content has flooded LinkedIn like never before.

There are “management lessons” from everything.

Christiano Ronaldo gets benched in a world cup game — self-styled business gurus have management lessons to learn and teach from it.

An Uber driver takes a left turn instead of a right and then takes a U-turn to make amends — there’s a tribute to his honesty and “ability to recognize his mistakes” all over LinkedIn with three hundred comments and forty-seven reposts.

India beat Pakistan in a cricket match and Virat Kohli scored a much-awaited century and hundreds of life lessons come out of the LinkedIn woodwork. Not just that, these lessons are then reposted two hundred and twenty-seven times.

A man takes a dump after four days of being constipated, and there are still learnings to be had from the experience. Comments, reactions, and…