LinkedIn会不会扼杀童真

    有一种观点认为，我们应该尽可能长时间地保护我们的孩子免受真实世界的伤害，而上述内容让这一观点处于一个尴尬的境地。这种观点代表了养尊处优人士的担忧，然而，对于贫困和工薪家庭来说，可能家长们思考得更多的是让孩子免受贫困循环和经济停滞的困扰。虽然LinkedIn中的个人资料不一定能带来多大的帮助，但它肯定不会有害处。

    然而，美国青少年对待LinkedIn的方式大概会和成人一样。威尔•莱穆斯在科技杂志Slate中指出：“有一种观念认为，美国的九年级学生将搁置Snapchat聊天应用和Keek在线社交服务，转而蜂拥至LinkedIn去对比教育诚信信息。在我看来，这种观念有可能略微高估了九年级学生的平均心智。更有可能出现的情形是，那些14岁的孩子至少会跟我们一样，觉得LinkedIn只是一个索然无味的网站。”（财富中文网）   

    All of which puts the notion that we should protect our kids from the "real world" for as long as possible in an interesting context. Such are the concerns of the comfortable. Poor and working-class families, meanwhile, might be a lot more concerned with protecting kids from the cycles of poverty and economic stagnation. Not that a LinkedIn profile will necessarily help very much with that. But it certainly won't hurt.

    Mostly, though, America's teenagers will take to LinkedIn in much the same way the rest of us have. As Will Oremus put it in Slate, "the assumption that the nation's ninth-graders are going to drop their Snapchats and Keeks and flock to LinkedIn to compare educational bona fides strikes me as possibly a slight misreading of the average ninth-grade psyche. More likely, 14-year-olds will find LinkedIn at least as boring as the rest of us already do."