LinkedIn LARPing: The Neal Ungerleider Newsletter
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Let’s just say it: LinkedIn is the weirdest social network.
And that takes a lot of doing. Especially for a social media service that largely lacks conventional memes, pictures of pets or children, conspiracy theory spreading, thirst traps, sports chat, political ranting, or any of the other topics that thrive on other services. (With that said, all of those are there on LinkedIn—just not so much).
LinkedIn is where you go to find a job, lay the groundwork for a promotion, boast about what your company is up to, get speaking engagements/podcast interviews/etc. or find new clients, vendors and sales leads. All of these, of course, make LinkedIn REALLY DAMN WEIRD.
And the bulk of LinkedIn’s weirdness comes from otherwise sane adults LARPing as Big Important Business People. Things like:
Job titles that sound like they’ve been ripped from the deepest pages of an absurdist play script. Chief Vice Senior Assistant President Officer, I’m looking at you.
Writing long and vaguely non-sensical st…
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