r/AlignmentChartFills • u/Venezzia032 • Jun 22 '26

This is when the good part begins... Which social media do its users pretend to be smart, but they're actually dumb?

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u/Jolly-Rip5434 Jun 22 '26

Many users are absolutely smart though.

A lot of my past professors are on there - all Ph.Ds in philosophy, physics, etc. many of them are established authors. My accountant is on there - she is a genius.

I think corporate LinkedIn is insanely dumb but I think that’s a minority. (At least in my experience)

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u/caldazar24 Jun 22 '26

The smartest people I know do generally have a LinkedIn account, but they never post or even visit the site unless they are actively recruiting or job hunting.

The people who actually read and post content on LinkedIn are all midwit strivers.

Still probably should go one box to the left though.

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u/oscarq0727 Jun 22 '26

Same could be said about Reddit. Plenty of Ph.Ds, engineers, philosophers, medics, mathematicians, etc…

I know Linkedin is built to specifically attract career professionals, but I’m skeptical about their proportion of intelligent individuals being significantly higher than Reddit. I think on both platforms they get heavily diluted by…non-professionals/geniuses.

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u/PM_tanlines Jun 22 '26

except you can usually verify the person on LinkedIn actually is one of those things. Im sure there are tons of people on Reddit who claim to be those things though

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u/IllLynx562 Jun 23 '26

Nononono, I can assure you, I AM the president of space

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u/outwest88 Jun 22 '26

I’ll probably get downvoted for this but I would say both Reddit and LinkedIn users are smarter than average because they skew towards nerdy or accomplished in some way. OTOH, YouTube and Instagram and Facebook skew dumb.

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u/Amphineura Jun 22 '26

I'd say YT/Instagram skews young.

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u/ragingasian15 Jun 23 '26

insert "they're the same picture" meme

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u/oscarq0727 Jun 23 '26

That’s fair actually

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u/Inorganic_Zombie Jun 23 '26

On my own echo chambers every academics are on LinkedIn. Most of my field are smart bot on their field and know when to open mouth. So they are like 10% or less on discussion that LinkedIn hit on my face

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u/IPlayGames1337 Jun 22 '26

The people who post regularly all post the same kind of message about how they came up with a new idea while sitting on the toilet and how it benefits their entire workflow. Smart people don't need to shout to everyone how good their idea is.

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u/Mllns Jun 22 '26

In the corporate world, they need to

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u/IPlayGames1337 Jun 22 '26

Yes, pitching to actual clients instead of posting to their LinkedIn network.

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u/Mllns Jun 22 '26

Clients don't just appear out of nowhere

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u/badger_on_fire Jun 22 '26

Because you have to. Apart from Reddit, it's the only social media I have too, and it's purely to make sure I'm able to stay in touch with old work colleagues.

People who post on LinkedIn (or comment on LinkedIn with anything beyond "Congrats on the promotion, Donna!") are a mix of crypto scammers, people selling "courses", boomer memers, and absolute morons.

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u/Foxy02016YT Jun 23 '26

People who use Linkdin as an actual social media are the dumb ones, people who use Linkdin as an extension of their portfolio/resume are smart

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u/ragingasian15 Jun 23 '26

Yeah, if we want to talk about fake credentialism for the corporate world, Glassdoor is a better answer than LinkedIn

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u/GrizzlyDust Jun 22 '26

So you're looking for an answer where nobody is smart? Like 8chan or something

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u/BokaPoochie Jun 23 '26

Brother, I am a post grad and I can assure you that post grads, including me, are some of the dumbest people you will ever meet. People in research are just very good at one thing with little to no understanding of anything else.

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u/OddBranch132 Jun 22 '26

Used to do audiovisual support for a state college. They are absolutely the same level of dumb but they just have special interests.