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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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It’s the medium that most completely reduces me to verbal helplessness. Words don’t work the same way on LinkedIn.
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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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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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thats why i turned my profile into a lotr joke. its behind ooda loop strategy which itself is decades old so souper easy to game.