About the annoying practice of publishing quizzes on social networks in order to gain likes, shares and raise in popularity. My open comment to those practicing this extensively: Please stop sharing these quizzes, brain teasers and riddles. I have you in my contacts for professional reasons. My network is comprised of high valuable contacts and professional business associates. I see LinkedIn as a professional network and do not consider this type of interaction as a professional dialog. In order to protect myself and my valued connections I will consequently remove partners in my network who I believe disturb and distract a professional exchange. You have to value for yourself what matters more: the connection you have with me and the benefit of the associated network or the gained popularity and interaction you have through those quizzes. I do value original content and personal views for sharing but not shared canned content which I believe only fuels the purpose of gaining popularity, hits and likes. I am happy to connect back with you when you consider my view of the use of LinkedIn and the responsibility that comes with it. If you want to connect on a personal level please send a new connections request and let me know your thoughts. It was a pleasure having you as one of my valued contacts.

1. Annoying Practices Series:
MathquizonLinkedIn
areyouagenius?
By 404Whylo
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2. Summary
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• Have you recently observed the practice of sharing math and
other quizzes?
• Most of them badly pixelated screenshots
• How x@# annoying!

3. Areyouagenius?Somewarmupquizzle
• 99% couldn’t answer this –can
you?
•Oversharing will hurt?
• Your career,
• Your neighbour,
• The government or
• Your intelligence 3
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4. Areyouagenius?Somewarmupquizzle
•101% will fail answering this!
•Information published on the
internet?
•Gets deleted regularly,
•Stays indefinite or
•Is my backup.
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5. Areyouagenius?Somewarmupquizzle
• 0% have failed to succeed to
answer this incorrectly
• Step 1- there is a hide button for this type of
shared idiotic quizzes
• Step 2 - is to send an email to the sharer to
remove him/ her from your contact list if he
proceeds sharing this type of entertainment
(except if U like it),
• Step 3- remove this over-sharer from your
contact list.
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6. Areyouagenius?Somewarmupquizzle
• The secret! No one really knows
this, can U answer?
• Why do dogs walk around in circles
before lying down? Do Australian dogs
turn to the right and northern
hemisphere dogs to the left? And what
about my dog he is from Australia and
was brought to Europe? 6
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7. Areyouagenius?Somewarmupquizzle
• Have U got the answer to this
primeval riddle?
• Are mind teasers or brain teasers (i.e. math questions
on LinkedIn) taken to help develop and teach critical
thinking?
• Don’t know what U are talking about but totally true,
• Micro interactions and annoying distraction,
• Belong on FB,
• Engagement strategy or
• Racking up the stats of the poster to gain status ( i.e.
influencer?). 7
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8. Areyouagenius?Somewarmupquizzle
•Not one gets this not wrong the
first time!
• How do you spell “science” when the rule
states: states "i" before "e" except after "c"?
• Scheience,
• Sience,
• Seince or
• Who cares my spell checker will fix it.
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9. Areyouagenius?Somewarmupquizzle
•Answer if you are a genius?
• If a General is a higher ranking officer
than a Major, then why is a major
illness worse than a general illness?
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10. Areyouagenius?Somewarmupquizzle
•0x5% can’t answer this can you?
•What is the speed of dark?
• The opposite of the speed of light
• 2 times half the speed of dark
• I will ask my wife
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11. WhatcanUdoonLinkedIn
• You can hide the comments of the person
• Does hiding the comment really solve the problem? No!
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12. Myopencomment…
• Please stop sharing these quizzes, brain teasers and riddles. I have you in
my contacts for professional reasons. My network is comprised of high
valuable contacts and professional business associates. I see LinkedIn as
a professional network and do not consider this type of interaction as a
professional dialog. In order to protect myself and my valued
connections I will consequently remove partners in my network who I
believe disturb and distract a professional exchange. You have to value
for yourself what matters more: the connection you have with me and the
benefit of the associated network or the gained popularity and interaction
you have through those quizzes. I do value original content and personal
views for sharing but not shared canned content which I believe only
fuels the purpose of gaining popularity, hits and likes. I am happy to
connect back with you when you consider my view of the use of
LinkedIn and the responsibility that comes with it. If you want to connect
on a personal level please send a new connections request and let me
know your thoughts.
• It was a pleasure having you as one of my valued contacts.
• Kind regards, 404WYLO
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13. Thanksanddon’t
forget tohave
fun!
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