You Can Be Endorsed for 'Time Travel' and 'WMDs' on LinkedIn
Likely more popular than Twitter, LinkedIn may be the most anomalous of the modern social networks. It’s not for friends or family or fellow fans—like Facebook, Instagram, and even Pinterest—but for the professional world. It is the most formal social network, the one wearing a suit, the one where you’re most likely to find your insurance agent.
This stiffness carries over into its interface. It is, if not the least weird social network, then certainly the least spunky.
Except when it’s not. See, in LinkedIn, you can endorse other users for certain work skills. And while you can always type in your own skills, the site also auto-completes certain skills you might want to fill in.
And these suggested skills are amazing.
Here is an abridged list of them:
Tigers
Rodeo
Juggling
Tender Submissions
Vacant Lots
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Horizontal Directional Drilling
Shrinkage
Time Travel
Islands
Air
Readiness
Gamma Knife
Street Theatre
Haiku
Doer
Vagrant
Impersonations
Doorhangers
Borehole Seismic
Slang
Slabs
Space Weather
Ninja Skills
Festivals
Zen
Pants
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