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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, ejaculating words of insincere delight at disclosure of those awards from those in your [[networking|network]], [[virtue signalling]] your profound commitment to cosmopolitan equality and flexible working, brazenly brown-nosing LinkedIn “influencers” or merely articulating your own 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.
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 [[networking|network]], [[virtue signalling]] your profound commitment to cosmopolitan equality and flexible working, brazenly brown-nosing LinkedIn “influencers” for their feeblest posts - those lionising Mohammad El-Erian's [https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mohamedelerian_singapore-singaporeair-activity-6592909269580996608-_Bg5 photos from his plane window of the sea], we're looking at you - or merely articulating your own pat advice on job interview technique, 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 ([[:category:Published|these ones]]), [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ollybuxton/recent-activity/posts/ there]. Do as [[I]] say, not as [[I]] do, folks.
After all, however idiotic LinkedIn is, the [[Jolly Contrarian]] still publishes some of its snitty ramblings there. Do as [[I]] say, not as [[I]] do, folks.


===Job descriptions on [[LinkedIn]]===
===Job descriptions on [[LinkedIn]]===