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It’s not just that LinkedIn is behind the curve, but that it is uncritically and unironically behind the curve on every damn thing in the most tropey way possible. It’s like talking to cartoon archetypes from tvtropes come to life.
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I honestly don’t know why I continue to maintain a profile there. It’s a place of budget lovecraftian horror where hordes of minor eldritch beings from the Industrial Age cavort and gambol oblivious to the spiritual pain that radiates from their realm across the internet
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And yet the rest of us continue to be drawn to it in rapt horror, muttering ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh L’inkdN wgah'nagl fhtagn
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“That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.” You can ragequit Facebook but LinkedIn is where death goes to die
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You may think it is harmless cringe NPC land long past any possible relevance but it secretly rules the world. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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The thing is, it simply reproduces the structure of the corporate world with no edits, and no room for anything that might subvert it to find a foothold. Where corporations really are people, people turn into monsters who don’t know they’re monsters.
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I suspect at some level I don’t quit LinkedIn because I feed on dark LinkedIn energy. Without LinkedIn, who am I really. Cthulhu L’inkdn Ftaghn!
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Oh shit, I think I just figured it out. LinkedIn is the opposite of Very Online. It’s Not Really Online At All. They’re in a sort of “Internet theme park” attached to meatspace.
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