LinkedIn is starting to feel more like Facebook.

I had a feeling that LinkedIn was starting to feel like Facebook. I kept the thought to myself for a while so I wouldn't be objected but just recently, I heard it from someone else.

When I first got into LinkedIn, my first impression was, Jobs. A social media for job hunters, job seekers and as well job employers. LinkedIn has a tab just for jobs. To help ease the job posting and job finding process. It has a quick resume format where you save your profile as a PDF and submit job application.

Then a little while I got to see that connection mattered. You can connect personally to people who are already working where you want to work and through them find opportunities to join their team. You can connect with CEOs and get direct recommendation for a job.

Then there is motivation. You get to see people post their success and breakthrough. They get a new job they post it, and it's like a motivation to keep working hard to get your own and join the league.

But what started out as motivation began to look like oppression. A post of someone getting a job that would motivate you to keep working hard will begin to look like they are better than you and can get the job while you're just there to receive the email with "unfortunately" written on it.

In Instagram this is called Toxic Happiness.

Now if you cannot get the big job, with the big role, big title and big pay. You make the little ones look big.

If your job requires to just open and close doors for employees and customers walking in and out of the workplace. You don't say you're a doorman. You call yourself an access management specialist and your responsibilities include managing access to the premises, monitoring visitor activity, and maintaining the integrity of the building’s security systems. If you are in charge of cleaning, you don't call yourself a janitor, you call yourself a?Facilities Sanitation and Maintenance Engineer emphasize on the word engineer.

Then if they can't post the jobs, they post anything that could be celebrated. Birthdays, graduation, weddings, baby delivery, matriculations, convocations, certificates, awards, anniversaries, just post anything, as long as they can be congratulated.

Then over a time we get to a place where people will post a selfie of themselves and then and an extra-long professionally sounding caption just to post something for people to like and comment.

Now, shouldn't you post?

No! You should post, but with a cause. Let there be a message, let there be lesson let there be something that you're giving with your post. Not just how well you did, how great your life going, or how much you are achieving but teach how someone can do it as well as you did, or better than you did. Not just how great you are doing, but how we can start doing great along with you. Not just what you are achieving, tell us something we can achieve wherever we are.

Teach us to do great things that we may learn to do great things and teach others to do great things.

In Conclusion.

Don't just post that you got a new certificate, post something about what you learnt to get the certificate, post what someone else can do in order to get that certificate as well.

Don't just post you got a new job, post the site where others can apply for the job, or a lesson you learnt from the interview. Tell us what we need to add to our resume to help us stand out, the resources you used to beef up your portfolio.

The main purpose of learning is to teach.