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Why Bangladeshi students needs to use Linkedin instead of Facebook?

Last year, I sat with a group of students after class and asked a simple question: how many of you have a LinkedIn profile? Out of more than thirty, two hands went up. Then I asked how many were on Facebook. Every hand in the room. That gap is the whole reason I wanted to write this. Almost every student in Bangladesh is on Facebook. Almost none are on LinkedIn. It is a small detail that quietly decides a lot.

Facebook is built to take your attention. LinkedIn is built to grow your career. One of these compounds over the years. The other does not. This is the story of why that difference matters more than it looks, and what I have watched it do for the students who took it seriously.

The Starting Point

It helps to begin with the numbers, because they are not what most people expect. According to DataReportal, Bangladesh had about 60 million social media users at the start of 2025, and Facebook holds almost all of them. LinkedIn has close to 12 million, and most of those users are working professionals over 25, not students.

Most people read that and conclude LinkedIn is the small, unimportant platform. I used to think the same way. It is exactly backwards. When almost no students are doing something useful, the few who do it stand out immediately. Scarcity is leverage. You do not earn an edge by becoming the ten millionth student posting on Facebook.

What LinkedIn Actually Does for You

The simplest way I explain it to my students is this: LinkedIn turns your work into something other people can find. Every skill you list, every project you describe and every person you connect to becomes part of a public record that recruiters search. Internships, scholarships and remote jobs are often posted there first. You can learn a real skill and show the proof on the same page.

I have seen a student who wrote about one real project look more serious than a graduate who wrote about nothing at all. It sounds obvious the moment you hear it. And yet almost no one does it.

What Facebook Does to You

Facebook works in the opposite direction. It keeps you scrolling, and scrolling does not compound. The average person spends more than 18 hours a week on social media. I often ask students to imagine pointing even a fraction of those hours at something that builds.

There is a quieter cost too. Your Facebook history is public in the wrong way. The jokes and photos you forgot about are often the first thing an employer finds when they search your name. Facebook is not evil. It simply pays you in entertainment, and entertainment is gone the moment you receive it.

The People Who Already Did It

I find the strongest argument is not mine. It is the people who tried this before my students did. Syed Sadman Sabbir, a programmer at a UK-based company, told The Business Standard in January 2025 that students should be as active as possible on LinkedIn, calling it “a good place to build a network with professionals from similar fields.” In the same piece, a remote worker named Tauhid pointed to LinkedIn, Glassdoor and We Work Remotely as places to find real remote work.

Then there is Affan Bin Emran, who landed a full-time US-based remote job while he was still an undergraduate in Bangladesh, and later became a Revenue Operations Manager. He had fixed up his LinkedIn profile to show his skills. In his words, “a recruiter found me through LinkedIn.”

An Erasmus Mundus scholar wrote in The Daily Star’s Campus section that he won a fully funded scholarship worth BDT 95 lakh at a top-50 law university, plus three more in the same cycle right after graduating. He credited early LinkedIn networking with the programme’s alumni.

This is no longer scattered or accidental. LinkedIn Community Bangladesh, founded by Altaf Hossain Raju, calls itself the country’s first LinkedIn based professional community and reports more than 24,000 members, over 40 campus leads and over 190 career sessions. The country’s biggest LinkedIn voices say the same thing. Favikon’s 2026 list of the top 20 LinkedIn influencers in Bangladesh makes the point plainly. Nafees Salim of Impact Academy has a stated 2 million plus followers. Abdur Rakib of Programming Hero wants to help 10,000 students reach global tech jobs every year by 2028. Muntasir Mahdi has mentored more than 35,000 students. All of them do it on LinkedIn, not Facebook. Notice the pattern: none of them waited until they were important to start.

To Anyone Considering This Path

The good news is that you do not need permission, and you do not need to be impressive yet. If you are in school, make a simple profile and follow people doing work you admire. Reading good things every week is enough at first.

If you are in college, add your subjects, your skills and anything you have actually done. Connect with seniors. Post sometimes. If you are at university, treat your profile like a living CV. Add internships, research and a real photo. Message people politely and ask for advice. Most will say yes. Almost no one asks.

One rule matters above the rest: keep it honest. No copying other profiles. No blank connection requests. No turning it into another Facebook.

What I Learned Watching This

If teaching has taught me anything, it is that most students overestimate what they can do this year and badly underestimate what they can do across a whole degree. Facebook spends those years for you. LinkedIn invests them.

Final Words

Start now, while it is early and almost no one your age is paying attention. That is the entire advantage. Take it.

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