New Delhi, Aug. 21 -- A LinkedIn user's unusual experiment, adding a fake Harvard MBA to his profile "just for fun", has triggered a heated debate on social media.

In a now-viral post, the user claimed that the fake credential instantly made his profile look more impressive to recruiters and connections. "Master's degrees are useless. I gave myself one on LinkedIn just for fun (there's no verification process). Since adding this, the DMs have been flowing in. Every other message mentions how 'impressive' my academic background is," he wrote.

He went on to add that instead of spending years and thousands of dollars on higher education, professionals could simply "fake it till you make it" on the platform.

The post, however, did not go d...