Do you turn the TV on just to watch commercials?
Do you love flipping through advertisement leaflets with giant company logos?
No?! Really?!
Then why are you posting exactly that here? Nobody comes to LinkedIn to scroll through faceless company PR with zero human voice. People want to see people.
And now I hear from the same folks: “We need to hide our information from LinkedIn AI, because it will train on us to make accounts popular!”
Wait… is that not exactly what you wanted when you signed up for a social network?
I just read a post about the new warning to “opt out” from AI training because “it will train on your personal data.” What?
Let’s pause here. Who is adding personal data to LinkedIn in the first place? Everything posted here is public—and intended to be. The main purpose of social platforms is to establish new connections. Aka: get followers, follow someone, and share.
People should decide: do they want visibility on social platforms or do they want to hide? Not all data sharing is bad. Even public posts that become AI training data are not “evil”—they’re literally what keeps the platform alive.
I get asked almost daily:
👉 How do you become popular on LinkedIn?
👉 How do you get high engagement?
Well… step one: open your profile and actually post. Then decide: do you want to stay private with a closed profile, or do you want to grow? No one is following an almost anonymous account. You have to share something with the world.
And the classic line: “But what if someone steals my personal data?”
Here’s the thing—you and only you decide what to post. There’s a huge difference between not posting at all and posting every single personal detail. No one is going to share your home address if you never put it online in the first place.
So maybe the real question is:
⚡ Do you want to be visible, or do you want to hide?
⚡ Do you want to grow your network, or keep it silent?
Because at the end of the day, it’s your call.
This is the rant post after seeing some posts in the LinkedIn 😂
My personal security recommendations:
never post your kids or parents birthdays, their names or pets' nicknames IF you using them as passwords or part of passwords. Never check-in or post from the location when you there only after you left. Never post your personal information in Internet and it's not the same as show your personality!
If you want to see my face or videos from my day, you should follow me on Instagram and watch my stories there. Here I don't post photos or videos mostly because of the limitation of the storage space. But I post A LOT of that in the Instagram. Here just "long reads" that not fit the format of other social platforms
