LinkedIn is not a social network. Maybe, it has never been one. It is a store. A marketplace. Not a very well oiled mechanism of different vendors under one big orchestrator that needs from you just one thing. Money. To be precise, they want your time and money but since time is actually money, it is only money after all.
They are just like Facebook, with a slight twist that makes it even more annoying than the latter. You are never your true self. Not that you are on Facebook, duh. Nobody online is who they are offline. This is human psychology. However, LinkedIn squeezes all the juices out and leaves only the dry seed in. You are forced to drive in a very narrow lane. Nobody posts awkward photos, leaves controversial comments, or makes a borderline appropriate joke. Why? Because it is unprofessional. Your current or future employer may be watching! What would they think? You have to behave! We are all professionals here, aren’t we? We conduct professional conversations, we post professional content, we like, comment, and share what our colleagues, equally professional people, have to say.
Vassily Nezhid