GREAT POST! How LinkedIn's redesign is not going the way it intended...

"Great Post!" - I'm sure by now many of you have had your InBoxes flooded with a multitude of messages saying, "Great Post!"

At first you may get excited - "Wow, that's great. People are really liking my shares. Score one for the engagement + column!"

Then you see the next person, and the next person, all saying the same thing.

But "Which post?" is great - the photo you shared, the Pulse entry, the status update with a link to a CNN article on the newest corporate merger?

Alas, far less exciting.

Apparently the recently relaunched LinkedIn app has included a button (that's not even connected to the 'LIKE' function) that when pressed sends this auto-generated response. And the kicker is the receiver has no idea to even which post they're referring to.

On top of this, many of you are likely to have noticed a ton of plain "Hi, John," etc., InMails since the mailbox redesign.

This is due to an auto-send function when you type your salutation and merely hit the "return" key.

Mind you, LinkedIn has never been much for beta testing of mass-change rollouts, (nor many other social media channels), but at this point, with the flood of junk we're receiving due at fault to 100% bad -- and dare I say SLOPPY -- coding, it's time they take notice, before we take our monthly $60 elsewhere.

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Olympia Lambert is the Global Branding Account Manager at Hirst Pacific Ltd, a creative global branding and design agency in Soho, NYC, and Owner of Social Ewe, a small business social media consultancy.