LinkedIn is a social network that encourages self-promotion and attention-seeking, albeit focused on career-building instead of pure vanity. Once we add to the

LinkedIn is a social network that encourages self-promotion and attention-seeking, albeit focused on career-building instead of pure vanity. Once we add to the mix the career types that conflate their corporate life/career with their own personal life, to the point where they have no personal life to speak of outside of their professional circle, it's expected that this sort of weirdness flourishes from those in the deep end.