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A guilty pleasure.  
A guilty pleasure.  


Being the sort of person <ref>the technical term is a “[[masochist]]”</ref> who likes Ed Wood movies<ref>Try Danny Glover and Vinnie Jones in ''[[Age of Dragons]]''</ref> I love [[LinkedIn]], despite its immutable hatefulness. Its sole virtue is the sparkling clarity with which confirms every prejudice a cynic could possibly confect about the world of free enterprise<ref>[[Apocalypse|The horror. The horror]]</ref>.
Being the sort of person <ref>the technical term is a “[[masochist]]”</ref> who likes Ed Wood movies<ref>Try Danny Glover and Vinnie Jones in ''[[Age of Dragons]]''</ref> I love [[LinkedIn]], despite its immutable hatefulness. Its sole virtue is the sparkling clarity with which it confirms every prejudice a cynic could possibly confect about the world of free enterprise and the men and women who inhabit it<ref>[[Apocalypse|The horror. The horror]]</ref>.


Whether it modestly disclosing [[industry awards]] one has “won” for representing a prolific advertiser in the hosting organisation’s magazine, insincerely ejaculating words of delight at such news from your network, [[virtue signalling]] your profound commitment to flexible working policies, or articulating pat advice on job interview techniques, posing recycled logical conundrums from Facebook that “only a genius” could solve or desperately hunting for candidates, any candidates for a support lawyer role in one or other of Arab Emirates, but none of the gigabytes of output from LinkedIn has of any merit, interest or passing distraction of less sober social networks, yet somehow it is strangely compelling.
Whether modestly disclosing [[industry awards]] one has “won” for representing a prolific advertiser in the hosting organisation’s magazine, insincerely ejaculating words of delight at the humble disclosure of those awards from your [[networking|network]], [[virtue signalling]] your profound commitment to cosmopolitan equality and flexible working, articulating pat advice on job interview techniques, posting recycled logical conundrums from Facebook that “only a genius” could solve or desperately hunting for candidates any candidates — to fill a support lawyer role in one of the Arab Emirates<ref>Fluency in Arabic preferable!</ref>, none of the terabytes put out by denizens of [[LinkedIn]] has a tenth of the merit, interest or distraction value of other social networks — yet, yet, yet somehow the sum of [[LinkedIn]]’s mealy-mouthed parts is strangely compelling.
 
After all, however idiotic LinkedIn is, [[Amwell J]] still publishes some of its snitty ramblings ([[:category:Published|these ones]]), [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ollybuxton/recent-activity/posts/ there]. Do as [[I]] say, not as [[I]] do, folks.


However idiotic LinkedIn is, [[Amwell J]] still publishes some of its snitty ramblings ([[:category:Published|these ones]]), [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ollybuxton/recent-activity/posts/ there].
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