I used to have a LinkedIn account. I’ve had one for many, many years. I don’t even know how long. But in my desire to purge social media from my life, and especially after realizing how distracting it can be to write a popular post, I decided to just nuke it. Plus, it’s owned by Microslop (known by a few as “Microsoft”), and I increasingly detest them. So I did delete it, kind of on a quick whim.

But then I thought, “oh, wait, I should grab the posts I wrote and copy them to my blog.” So I tried to reactivate. I’m not sure what exactly I did wrong, but that doesn’t work. I can effectively use the same email to create a new account, but it has none of my old stuff.

Would have been nice to grab them, but they’re history–not even in the way back machine. Alas. Oh well. Not that big of a deal anyway.

At this point, the only social media I have is Facebook. Kind of. I literally have it for the marketplace only. My only friend is my teenaged daughter. I simply don’t use it.

I used to have most of them: Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, and Facebook being the most important. Leaving Twitter was the hardest. It seemed to vibe with my desire to know what’s going on best. Instagram wasn’t that bad for me. They’d already screwed it up such that most of what I saw was garbage. I barely noticed getting rid of it. Reddit is a little irritating, but I can still go view stuff going on in my community if I want to without having an account. Facebook was the hardest at one point. It really felt like an actual community of people I know (again, at one point). I deleted it first at some point and it somehow killed it for me. I came back at some point and it was just never the same again. I suspect that this was simply an amusing time coincidence when Meta was taking over and destroying Facebook/Instagram. I added it again at some point when I wanted to buy a used dryer, but at that point defanged it by stating up front that I’m not adding friends, and that I only have it for the marketplace. That’s seemed to work well.

Anyway, LinkedIn is the final one to fall. Good bye to it.