Am I LinkedIn famous?
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Anonymous
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Was at an event today and a friend’s daughter is graduating college and asking me career advice. I shared my LinkedIn profile and said connect and message me next week with Resume and I can give it to my connections.
She is only 21 but called me LinkedIn famous when she saw my profile as I have 6,000 followers. Is that a lot? I would assume 20,000 would be minimum and 100,000 would be the bar. How many is average someone who is old and just on it for a long time? |
Anonymous
| Lol |
Anonymous
| I just checked and I have 700 followers |
Anonymous
| She was trying to flatter you, and it worked. |
Anonymous
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I think she was just joking. There are linkedin influencers but they mostly post dumb shit like "Leadership Lesson: Today I saw a homeless guy in the parking lot feeding the birds when I was pulling into the office. That guy? My 10:00 interview. I gave him the job on the spot." Or whatever bullshit, idfk.
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Anonymous
| 🙄 My kid who graduated college this year has over 1,000 followers. |
Anonymous
| Oh my God, it's LinkedIn no one cares. |
Anonymous
| You become famous when your are featured on r/LinkedInlunatics. |
Anonymous
| I have just shy of 100 connections and 95 followers. I've been on there for years, but never post anything because my job doesn't change. |
Anonymous
🤣🤣🤣 This is why the LinkedIn Lunatics subreddit is so funny |
Anonymous
| Yes, that's a lot. Also, you don't get that number accidentally unless you have the kind of job that makes people really want to connect with you. |
Anonymous
| But whether you're also actually big on LinkedIn has more to do with your posting behavior. |
Anonymous
Agreed. I have fewer than 500 and I've been on since 2007. I mostly use it like Facebook to keep up with people I knew professionally who moved to different jobs. I don't accept randos. My college-aged son tells me that kids feel it's very important to achieve 500+. He has the same amount of contacts as me after 2 years. But he is actively looking for internships and building a network of professional contacts. I went to MBA school. My school contacts are all on LinkedIn and I have started to see their college kids come online. I don't have any other social media where people can link to me. I prefer the more business-like format of LinkedIn vs. the hot mess of Facebook and curated image heavy Instagram. I don't push updates and don't post goofy thoughts. But at least I can be found on the internet if someone wants to reconnect. |
Anonymous
You are delusional. You have a lot of followers. Famous? I mean, that's a stretch. |
Anonymous
OP I used to speak at conferences and on boards from 2006-2016 so people connected. Then when unemployed job hunting in 2020-2021 in Covid I was on it 20 hours a week. Now I seem to pick up 30-50 followers a month, not really trying. But I am doing a conference next week on a panel. First time in over a decade. No not an influencer. I’m only post a lot when I was advertisingspeaking events or when unemployed. |