It’s no secret that millennia often feel worse for themselves when they see their friends’ Instagram posts – but General Z gets that feeling from a surprisingly different source.
They face what is called “Linkedin Envy”.
By entering the platform, you will often find after people “excited to announce” their new position, sometimes even “their dream work”.
And at a time when unemployed people are seeing more difficult to find new jobs, LinkedIn has become “unmatched behemoth of digital insufficiency”, wrote Lotte Brundle journalist for Times in the UK.
Brundle showed that she read a post on LinkedIn by someone she had not seen since she graduated while “was unemployed after MA while sitting in my pants, my hand three -quarters of the road down a Pringles tube”, added that she thought “Life could not get anyone”.
When discussing how social media affects mental health, LinkedIn is often left out of conversation, but the younger generation is discovering that it affects them more than Instagram.
“When it comes to comparison spirals, Instagram gets all the glory. But LinkedIn is actually the ideal place to lose your mind, “according to a Slate Column 2019.
Brundle also compared the platform to a meeting site, where people compare to others, adding that she has used the platform to “see what are exes and nemes past” – and some of her friends even “talked” in it.
The comparison is not so far away. A study from March 2024 found that a large number of people received dates through LinkedIn – and some even preferred it in meeting places.
With 260 million users in America, there are many people in sites who can evoke a variety of emotions.
It is up to the point that people are erating the app from their phones because it is painful to watch.
One person went to Reddit to ask if they were just in feeling that way.
“I deleted my account because every time I continue it I feel absolutely terrible for myelf,” the story said. “May I just be me and compare myself a lot with others. But he finds someone else people there to be completely oppressed and egotically lol? I don’t have a bad job, but I think LinkedIn has just become an egocentric area of breeding like any social media platform.”
Many people in the comments agreed, joking that “the best question” would be if someone not Feel that way.
“I am unemployed and have to use LinkedIn out of necessity and feel like torture,” divided one.
“There was a time last year when I didn’t go to Linked for 2 months, from an extreme feeling of nausea every time I saw Linkedin’s content,” another wrote.
Another user named Linkedin “Overachiever ‘Facebook.
Doctor Susan Baiali Haas wrote in psychology today that people should use their envy as a “means of gaining personal clarity and increasing goodwill towards others”.
She wrote that she noticed that she does this herself while she was on social media, where she is “related to colleagues who are doing things I want to do and experience.
“Sometimes my reactions are so intensely that I will be some food,” Haas admitted, adding that if it hits a hurt point, it will even “criticize them in my mind … to make myself feel better. ”
Haas advised people to cure social resources to minimize the content of incentive as a “proactive way to protect your mental health”.
However, she also said people should look at those who feel envy and instead use it as motivator.
“Those for whom we envy can be indicative of what we want – and we have to achieve our lives,” she wrote. “They represent what is possible.”
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