LinkedIn Anxiety Is Real. Here's How To Cope Without Quitting.

"For most of us, LinkedIn has become an indispensable networking tool, with more than 1 billion users around the world. People find jobs on LinkedIn; they make connections and build professional networks on LinkedIn. They develop professional knowledge by reading posts, engaging in conversations and watching educational videos and podcasts. In many fields, being on LinkedIn is considered essential for your career-and if you are not on the platform, you are not considered a serious, engaged professional."

"Yet at the same time, LinkedIn can be tremendously stressful. As a business school professor who works with job-seeking students on a daily basis, I know that LinkedIn can feel extraordinarily self-promotional, triggering relentless social comparison. Unlike the days before LinkedIn when networking happened at specific events, a person's professional profile is now on constant display to anyone around the world: visible, searchable, and perpetually scrutinized."

LinkedIn functions as an indispensable professional networking and job-search platform with over 1 billion users. The platform enables job discovery, connection-building, professional learning, and visibility across industries, and being absent from it can signal disengagement. Many users experience significant stress from constant self-promotion and unending social comparison because profiles are permanently visible and searchable. Young professionals often face imposter syndrome, overthinking, reduced productivity, and even depression when comparing themselves to curated successes. Anonymous accounts report physiological anxiety reactions and recurring cycles of distress tied directly to LinkedIn interactions and scrutiny.

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