IS FLIRTING ON LINKEDIN LESS WEIRD THAN ON OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA? AFTER ALL, YOUR RESUME VOUCHES FOR YOU IN A SUBSTANTIVE WAY

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A: Whoa. Hang on. Let's first poke at the premise of your question, because the implications here are huge. Notice how you casually presume your resume offers a more substantive representation of your basic humanity than, say, all the tweets you've tweeted or all the digital artifacts amassed on your Facebook page. Think of the photos on Facebook alone: You in a rowboat with the gentle-looking man playing a banjo whom we understand to be your deceased (too young) father. You being silly-but not obnoxiously silly, just innocently, endearingly silly-in the Halloween aisle of a big-box store. You tagged in a photo of that kid you mentored that one summer, as he graduates from Berkeley. You climbing a goddamned mountain! Like, with pickaxes and stuff! 1 Do these not substantively communicate the substance of your life? Don't they "vouch" for you to potential dates as a safe, noncreepy, suffi-ciently together human being, a sympathetic soul tumbling through the fundamental experience of being alive and looking for compan- ionship? Or is that better captured with a line like this: "January 2013-November 2014, Senior Operations Associate, Mobitly Inc."?