‘Doing a Bradbury’: Linkedin is winning the social media war
Private Media CEO Will Hayward observes that Linkedin has come through as ‘the last man standing’.
Every social network has tried, at some point, to claim the mantle of the “digital town square.”
In 2019, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote:
“Over the last 15 years, Facebook and Instagram have helped people connect with friends, communities, and interests in the digital equivalent of a town square.”
More recently, Instagram head Adam Mosseri posted on Threads:
The greatest day of my life will be when I get to delete LinkedIn.
LI has been a cesspool of self promotion for a very long time.
If its the “Town Square”, its every individual climbing up on a podium and screaming about their latest promotion or AI related content.
Seems like not everyone agrees 🙁
Don’t worry Will, the same people running it down are probably the same people guilty of what they hate about the platform.
To be honest, I am actually enjoying the recent algorithm changes favouring deeper, more intelligent discussions from actually smart people I don’t know rather than the usual shameless self promotion from people in my network who are just doing the same thing they were doing four years ago.