PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

Parents Mr and Mrs Bennet discuss a potential suitor for their daughters. In the internet era, the pushy mother has found out everything she needs to know about Mr Bingley from the professionals’ social network LinkedIn.

Is [Mr Bingley] married or single?’ ‘Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune from what I can pertain from his LinkedIn; perhaps four or five thousand a year. Maybe even more, if the properties he owns listed on his profile are to be trusted – he certainly has the CV of the perfect suitor.