LinkedIn Bro Poetry Pretty Much Sums Up 2017 (thedailybeast.com) 51
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.
Watching a LinkedIn newsfeed... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Watching a LinkedIn newsfeed... (Score:5, Funny)
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Whoosh.
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Total waste of a first post bro.
Fine. Try this ...
More often than not, reading or responding to ACs is the definition of "total waste". 'Cept when I post anonymously. That is pure fjnorking poetry.
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EXACTLY my idea. Mod Parent UP!
One good thing about it for sure (Score:2)
Not sure, what "cannibals" have to do with this, but it sure sounds like LinkedIn newsfeed became better because of it...
Re:One good thing about it for sure (Score:5, Insightful)
There's a LinkedIn news feed?
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That's the real news here. Who browses LinkedIn for anything other than employer/employee hunting?
Gives a fuck. (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm inspired to never pay any attention to ridiculous boring shit like that.
No kidding (Score:5, Insightful)
I got one! (Score:5, Funny)
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.
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I opened an email. It had a 1x1 gif. But I only display text, and the web bug was not loaded. It did not matter. Just. Like. This. Site.
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I was slashdot. I checked, bored. I wanted neither interesting news or something that matters. I saw no article, and it did not matter.
Slashdot Poll (Score:4)
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Apparently not. And people who spend a lot of time marketing on there are desperate for attention. It's like the wild West of SEO from the late 90's in there.
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Yeah, Linkedin has it's own 'fake news' problem, it's just a lot easier to spot and a lot less corrosive than the problems Facebook's got. Like Facebook, they need to surface the good stuff and suppress the bad stuff.
While I'm here, Linkedin's 'feed' is quite probably the most brain-dead implementation possible. I posted a link to a little joke project I'd worked on for a couple of days. After I'd hit "submit", the post vanished - I had to go to My Profile -> My Posts to go find it again. Surely, they sh
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For Sale (Score:2)
Never Read.
So much depends upon (Score:3)
glazed with rain water
beside the white chickens.
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A read LinkedIn post
glazed with rain water
beside the white chickens.
Burma Shave!!
Haiku (Score:4, Funny)
Read the summary:
Elon Musk is forty six
I call total bull
where is the article (Score:1)
The blurb references an article but there is no link to an article
In the words of Lucille Bluth (Score:2)
"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."
e e cummings (Score:3)
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Typical American pretentiousnes (Score:1)
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.
Cui bono? (Score:2)
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
desperate for outrage (Score:1)
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.