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☆ It's not just you. LinkedIn has gotten really weird.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +19 min

The number of LinkedIn posts grew 41% from 2021 to 2023. A larger rival account emerged, State Of LinkedIn, and a Reddit community thrived — "LinkedIn Lunatics." "Do you realize how dangerous it is to troll via LinkedIn posts? For most people, their LinkedIn posts don't escalate so rapidly. According to Joseph Yeh, a tech recruiter in California who used to work for LinkedIn, revelatory posting is a balancing act.

Persons: Matthew Sciannella, I'm, Sciannella, he'd, Peter Rota, Rota, Xavier Lalanne, There's, Oversharing, Gen, Catalina Valentino, Elon, Sarah Frier, John Hickey, Ted Talkification, you'd, Hickey, Peter Rota's, Hickey wasn't, ominously, Jack Raines, sagely, Alexander Cohen, Cohen's, Raines, Cohen, Jacqueline Rainey —, he's, Young, —, , John Reid, Jon Franko, Franko, Instagram, @BestofLinkedIn, Reid, hypocritically, Joseph Yeh, Yeh, Daniel Roth, Fortune, Roth, Sciannella's, didn't, Slack, Franko's, Jameson, who's, He's, Rob Price Organizations: LinkedIn, Facebook, Microsoft, peeing, Economic, Twitter, Bloomberg, Columbia Business School, New York, New York Mets Locations: Washington, DC, Massachusetts, Davos, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay, New York City, Columbia, Manhattan, Bay, Oakland, California

☆ Social Media Is Dead: Instagram, TikTok Replaced by Group Chats, Messaging
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Sydney Bradley | Amanda Perelli | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Frustrated with the state of the platform, Breuning launched the "Make Instagram Instagram Again'' crusade in 2022. Influencers, marketers, average users, and even social-media executives agree: Social media, as we once knew it, is dead. Social media to social mediaNo app better defines the changing nature of social media than Instagram. "I'm honestly just tired of social media," said 23-year-old Walid Malb, who works in the creator economy. Amanda Perelli is a senior creator economy reporter covering social media influencers, advertising and marketing trends for Insider.

Persons: Tati, everyone's, Bruening, Breuning, algorithmically, Kylie Jenner, Adam Mosseri, Instagram, Jeffrey Gerson, Sarah Frier, Influencers, Mosseri, Hannah Stowe, Andrea Casanova, Casanova, I'm, Walid Malb, —, Gerson, Nina Haines, Victoria Johnston, Johnston, Lia Haberman, Alpha, they're, Haberman, wouldn't, Amanda Perelli, Bradley Organizations: Bloomberg, Apple, Twitter, UCLA, American Influencer Council, Social, . Locations: Instagram, New York, Similarweb, Castro, Geneva

☆ Jack Dorsey quit Instagram and entered the Musk-Zuckerberg fight, posting on X (formerly Twitter) that he's going 'Meta free'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Charissa Cheong | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey said he deleted his Instagram account in a post on X. He also said he does not have Whatsapp or Facebook and is going "Meta free." Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey seems to have taken a side in Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg's fight, saying he had abandoned Instagram and gone "Meta free." Dorsey has seemingly poked jabs at Zuckerberg's Threads in previous posts on X. Dorsey told Vanity Fair in 2013 he was "heartbroken" when he learned that Facebook had acquired Instagram under Twitter's nose.

Persons: Jack Dorsey, Dorsey, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg's, Elon Musk's, Mark Zuckerberg, Musk, Meta, Zuckerberg, Sarah Frier, Zuckerberg's Organizations: Twitter, Elon, Facebook, Bloomberg, Zuckerberg

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