atw: Re: LinkedIn endorsements
- From: Bill Parker <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 08:44:44 +0800
And just to show how silly this whole bloody Linkedin thing is I have put in my
profile "Morris Dancing" ( because I do). I completed that and then found
myself ( no idea how) with pages and pages of people with similar interests.
What? Morris dancing? How can that be?
Bill
On 01/06/2013, at 6:18 AM, Geoffrey wrote:
> Hello austechies
>
> To the many of you who have endorsed me for skills I do have, thank you. To
> those who have endorsed me for skills I do not have, what on earth were you
> thinking? Are you deliberately trying to frame in the minds of others an
> image of me that I am not? Folks, I am not a copy-writer, I have never been
> a copy-writer, and don’t want in any way to be associated with the pernicious
> black-art of copy-writing (with its screaming intensifications and its
> implicit belittlements that border on psycho-abuse: “you have not truly lived
> unless you have experienced the exhilaration and the sensual styling of the
> all newHowdie V12”, “ Go on, be a real mum and give them Caries Flakes for
> breakfast and” … you get my drift). So why are some you endorsing my
> non-existent copy-writing skills? A miasma of deception commingling with
> defamation is nettling my nostrils.
>
> And why are some of you endorsing my software development skills? Crikey, I
> wouldn’t know a class statement if it reared up at me in bloody revolution.
> And the last time I executed a branch, it fell smashingly on the neighbour’s
> fence. Stop it, stop it, stop it. Resist the temptation to endorse the
> dim-witted guesses of that cog-slipping, Watts-driven perpetuator of
> misinformation, that generator of self-aggrandisement, called LinkedIn.
> (Someone admitted the other day, to a table of lunching professionals who had
> met through LinkedIn, that she had touched up her LinkedIn photograph to make
> her look younger. I’m glad she was frank, because many of us had been
> wondering when the other [name withheld] was going to turn up.)
>
> If anyone needs reminding of just how dumb and misleading software can be,
> turn on your Microsoft Word’s grammar checker. The absurdity of the
> recommendations of the world’s reputedly smartest programmers might just
> inspire you to turn off a lot of other software that clogs up our lives with
> pretend knowledge while pick-pocketing our privacy along the way.
>
> In a word: stop misrepresenting others through thoughtless endorsements. It
> sours morally no less than a deliberate lie. As does photo-shopping a glamour
> you may once have thought you had.
>
> In a world of lies, thank the gods for Mr Curly and his duck.
>
> Geoffrey Marnell
> Principal Consultant
> Abelard Consulting Pty Ltd
> P: 03 9596 3456
> M: 0419 574 668
> F: 03 9596 3625
> W: www.abelard.com.au
>
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