It’s been 2 weeks since I deleted Twitter. Do I miss it? Not at all!

Facebook is now permanently deleted too. That is, I didn’t post anything in it for over a year now but I just decided to bite the bullet and permanently delete the accounts once and for all and become social media free.

LinkedIn, believe it or not, is still standing.

Why? (When I don’t like this platform?)

The thing is that I still need it for employment purposes.

What I’ve done instead is “lock it down”. I’ve reset some of the settings so only people who have LinkedIn accounts can see my profile. I’ve also deleted some entries that were old also fixed my About Me section explaining how to contact me through my blog.

I wrote:

I am now NOT on social media and as such will not respond to any messages here as this is now a static CV. I am in pursuit of self discovery of taking back my own creative and intellectual expressions so they aren’t bound by social media platform restrictions and algorithms. You can see my work on the sites below…

I know that potential employers in the future are probably going to think that I’ve got tickets on myself by stating that I won’t connect with them through social media but I’d hope that my work and reputation (plus the books I co-wrote), they’ll overcome this.

I think any recruiter or company who does a basic background search would probably find exactly what I’m capable when it comes to work. I’ll leave that up to them to do their work. I’m not doing it for them. ?

(That’s not to say that I see myself in work – in its current format – beyond say, 2-3 years. The way corporate work is going nowadays, it’s well……..not doing anything for me. I’ve come to the realisation I simply don’t want to be in it anymore because ‘work’ as we knew it – and what it is becoming – doesn’t resonate with me at all. It’s entirely foreign to me and a world I do not want to be a part of if I cannot be in the same place as my colleagues and customers because it’s too hard to coordinate anything. The things I held in high value when it came to work: teamwork, purpose, community, co-ordination, mastery seem to have disappeared as everyone scrambles to figure out what the hell is going on. Everything is in flux at the moment. I’d prefer to retire early and get out of the way of others. If I do need to find something, I’d much rather find some casual job to occupy my time. One that is in a not-for-profit, or community based organisation where I feel as if what I’m doing is valued by others). After all, we have one life and I don’t want to spend it spinning wheels.

Maybe I should go back to the Synchrotron and ask for that receptionist role again?

Anyway, for the time being, LinkedIn stays unfortunately but I will not be engaging with anyone on it.

Recently I did a book review on Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier and here, I share some reasons why I did the same.

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