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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>. | 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 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. | 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. | ||