atw: Re: LinkedIn endorsements
- From: "Rafael Manory" <rafi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 12:25:04 +1000
What I don't understand is where Linked it is taking the items for endorsement
from. They must be written somewhere in the respective profile...
I do share the views expressed here re endorsements in general and Linkedin in
particular but I think that closing the account would not stop the harassment
because most Linkedin messages are generated because people allow their
application to search individual mailing lists. So if you are on the mailing
list of someone who joins Linkedin you are likely to recieve a message to
either join Linkedin or login again because your acquiantance is now a member...
Rafael
----- Original Message -----
From: Howard Silcock
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2013 11:40 AM
Subject: atw: Re: LinkedIn endorsements
I was about to send a post suggesting that Geoffrey and I were in danger of
becoming the grumpy old men of this list for our views on LinkedIn endorsements
when I saw to my relief that others had similar views! I have posted to this
list before about this subject, suggesting that it makes little sense to
endorse someone for something unless you (a) are familiar with their work -
that is, have actually read documents they've produced or seen other products
of their labours - and (b) have some expertise in the subject yourself. This
makes me more churlish than Geoffrey, because it implicitly casts doubt on some
of the endorsements I've received for skills I do have, as well as obviously
implying that endorsing for skills I don't have is just ridiculous. But
Michelle's description of what the process actually involves is very
interesting.
Howard
On 1 June 2013 10:44, Bill Parker <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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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