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Revision as of 22:37, 14 February 2019

Crappy advice you find on LinkedIn

LinkedIn: home of the Shit Maxim

An occasional paean to the empty-headed aspirational gems that gush from from LinkedIn’s wellspring of bunk.
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A guilty pleasure.

Being the sort of person[1] who likes Ed Wood movies[2] 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[3].

Whether modestly disclosing industry awards one has “won” for representing a prolific advertiser in the hosting organisation’s magazine, ejaculating words of insincere delight at disclosure of those awards from those in your 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 paralegal role in one of the Emirates (fluency in Arabic preferable!), 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, the Jolly Contrarian still publishes some of its snitty ramblings (these ones), there. Do as I say, not as I do, folks.

A guide to LinkedIn profile descriptions

Title What it actually neans
Thought leader Twat
Digital prophet Total twat
Web developer Invented the Internet
Angel investor Recently made redundant from an executive role.
Founder Recently made redundant from an operations role. Now contracting.
Executive coach Recently made redundant from an operations role. Unable to find any contracting work.
Intrapreneur Shortly to be embarking on a new career as an executive coach but hasn't realised it yet.

References

  1. the technical term is a “masochist
  2. Try Danny Glover and Vinnie Jones in Age of Dragons
  3. The horror. The horror