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LinkedIn Bro Poetry Pretty Much Sums Up 2017 (thedailybeast.com)
An anonymous reader shares an article: It starts out like this: I was homeless. I was fired yesterday. I was walking home. I took an Uber. Someone stopped me on the street. My boss told me not to take a chance on anyone over 50, but I hired him anyway. It was Elon Musk. LinkedIn has become overrun with these types of inspirational tales posted as long status updates. They're characterized by their short sentences and read like E.E. Cummings poems recited from memory by Tony Robbins. They're usually between 15 to 25 lines long, always double spaced. They start with a hook in the first couple sentences that entices the reader to click the "see more" link that's displayed on LinkedIn posts that are longer than three lines. Some refer to this type of post as "the LinkedIn haiku" others call it "broetry" and it has completely cannibalized the LinkedIn newsfeed.
...would cut into my SlashDot time. Besides, my last few jobs have come from LinkedIn - why would you crap where you eat?
Not sure, what "cannibals" have to do with this, but it sure sounds like LinkedIn newsfeed became better because of it...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
I'm inspired to never pay any attention to ridiculous boring shit like that.
And if the post says "thought leader" in it, I block it.
I was bored. I checked Slashdot. I wanted interesting news or something that matters. I saw an article. It was neither interesting nor was it news nor did it matter.
Doesn't anyone seriously read any of the crap on linkedin feed?
love is just extroverted narcissism
Yet one more reason to not pay attention to Linkedin. I swear the emails I get from them have quadrupled since MSFT took them over, and my interest in using the site has fallen precipitously.
Never Read.
Support Right To Repair Legislation.
From the BS posts that are on Facebook everyday?
glazed with rain water
beside the white chickens.
Support Right To Repair Legislation.
So farewell then, slashdot.
At one time this wouldn't be worthy
of a comment
let alone
a submission.
under the previous owner you were good
or was it the one before that?
(Age 17 1/2)
Read the summary:
Elon Musk is forty six
I call total bull
here
The blurb references an article but there is no link to an article
"I don't know what this is and I don't care to find out."
I don't know what LinkedIn Bro Poetry is, but I am 100% certain that nothing involving LinkedIn sums up 2017 unless that thing is "Microsoft's increasingly desperate attempts to make LinkedIn into some sort of social harbinger."
"Choosing to refrain from producing another person demonstrates a profound love for all life" [vhemt.org]
Billy Hicks plants seeds:
Planting Seeds
How does it differ from sistetry? Is there a study, for me to read, is there a description for others to see? I am so lonely, I am so old. Virgin Airlines, I need to pee.
Disable caps for his name!
Being born in 1971, Elon Musk is now 46 years old.
they all walk and carry themselves like they're the most esteemed and accomplished people to ever grace the earth. American culture is like that. It's about you. You're awesome. You're worth it. You're better than the rest, etc.
What I don't get is "Who benefits from that?". It doesn't seem good, bad, or indifferent, just stupid, and I can't see who is supposed to benefit from that kind of post. Or is it just some sort of inoffensive troll?
Well, possibly this is because I never visit Linked In. But to me this feels mainly weird. It's like the "Enquirer" headline I read today that said "Oswald didn't shoot JFK, it was a cop", and that made me think Bob Wilson was writing for them, and wonder if "Illuminatus" was a history...for a second or two.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
Slow news day.
Bigoted fake-Progressive journalist feigns outage at *too much poetry* on the internet. Demands uncredentialed poets be no-platformed by corporate overlords. Only poetry from legitimate, ivy degreed, non-working-class poets to be permitted in your jobs site news feed.
Fuck you deplorable proles, that's why.
Not on my feed.. .when something like this shows up the offending user is TERMINATED.
-- j0uSt
Just another ploy for men to oppress women out of LinkedIn.... that's what the SJWs are going to say anyway.