Are you being a good LinkedIn-zen? or are you simply complaining all the time?

Complaining about LinkedIn is all the rage right now.

Improper content. Offensive image. Boy- is LinkedIn heading for the gutter or what? How Gen-Y of us.

LinkedIn gave us a free platform, access to about 400 million professionals and no restrictions on type and quantity of content. All we users have to do is police ourselves. other would call it having good “LinkedInzenship”.

But are we doing that? or are we standing by letting others abuse the platform we value with erotic images, stupid GIFs and posts we belong at Facebook? For the most part, we do nothing.

Wait, that’s not true.

We do nothing, AND complain.

Complain about how good LinkedIn was before group rules were changed. How good it was before you could post long blog-like posts on Pulse.

We complain how it become the hunting ground of imposters and fraudsters.

And especially- how good it was before everyone discovered this valuable tool and started posting like crazy (yes, Trolls included). And add to that the rant about how LinkedIn tries to monetize us? You will never hear the end of it (they do, it’s their right).

So let me suggest a different approach.

Let’s do a better job at making LinkedIn more enjoyable for all.

Let’s report the fraudsters (I’ve wrote how one could quickly identify such accounts here , Block the spammers and make sure all improper content is flagged and banned. Yes, even unfollow those who persist in posting it.

When we do this enough, we can start to focus our attention back on Linkedin itself. Perhaps even writing suggestions to Mr. Reid Hoffman himself- about how to IMPROVE it. For sure it’s better than just complaining, and it might even bring a welcome change. Otherwise this terrific platform will degrade and we will all lose years of hard work and valuable connections gained here.

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