“Nice post.”

{Thumbs up emoji}

“Good idea.”

“I like your post very much.”

4 screen comments I collected on a post I worked up and sent to LinkedIn.

What part of what I posted WAS actually “nice” about it? Worth an emoji of your thumb? What was “good” about the idea? Why did you “like” it?

What? Nothing deeper to say?

If you left those “hit and run” comments on my post, you told me very very little–no let’s make that nothing–about what my comment or link or idea meant to you.

Why was it meaningful?

How can you apply it?

Is there something that makes it especially meaningful now that you can share?

Bottom line: don’t make us see you flat-lined with no thoughts, as your LinkedIn vitals are being recorded; rather, make the needle screen show a dance of electrical activity.

Use your words, as I used to tell my kids. They grew up and today they use their words quite well in adult business execution.

So should you, in any response to a post on LinkedIn. With explanation, elaboration, emotion. What are you thinking, we want to know?