Brutal and a bit hard coming from Naval Ravikant. His reasoning is that it makes you perform in public for money and thus similar to OnlyFans!
While I do agree that social media and esp. LinkedIn is performative where people invariably wear masks to look their best and camouflage a lot of reality, whether in profiles or in posts. No one likes to handle or speak harsh truths for the fear of rejection or looking weird and not being accepted.
But, I don't think all do it that way or need to. Firstly, LinkedIn was never positioned as social media which it has become now especially post covid when all the Facebook and Insta rollovers came rushing to find jobs and engage with the professional community and we Indians know how to mess up anything nice perfectly well (WhatsApp being one) - thus came the irrelevant influencers, selfies and personal branding coaches plus those content creators wanting to make a career out of it. Out went real good professional and thought leadership or normal posts without hooks, pulls and CTA's.
Curation, thus, is super important and pruning the network often. What you engage with defines what you put out to the community. We all have a choice.
As for Naval and Airchat - it indeed is a novel platform - more synchronous than others. I've tried using it but the whole new tech unfamiliarity fatigue sets in each time I try to do something. Given his pedigree, I am sure he has something up his sleeve and has gone all in on this.
Will it disrupt Twitter X and Meta platforms? Big ask but I do like what I see.
Meanwhile, cheers to all who perform for money here on LinkedIn 😀
Sound on 🔊 and that last line - 'What do you do for a living - I xxxx'
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This post was originally shared by Amit Gupta on Linkedin.