Yesterday I was chatting with a friend through texts (I’m doing a lot of that now) and it was mentioned about ‘hibernating LinkedIn’.

I hadn’t investigated this feature so this morning, I did that too.

It’s not exactly permanently deleting but it just hides your profile until such a time that you need to use LinkedIn again and then you sign back in and everything is there.

It means that people can’t see your profile anymore – you’re hidden.

I haven’t been using LinkedIn for sharing, engaging or reading at all. Over a year ago now, I unfollowed everyone so in effect, it was more like a ‘static online CV’ but I kept it ‘visible’.

I guess I don’t need to now so I hibernated it.

Let’s see how long that lasts although I think it will be a long time. I like the idea that it makes me invisible because it means then the people who genuinely want to contact me will find me. They’re the ones who I will make time for because I’ll appreciate the effort of them going to lengths to find where I’m at.

More and more I’m beginning to think that this is the new way of connecting with people in this crazy online social world.

Keep doing you – doing your good work – and the people who truly care, who truly value your work, WILL find you. Then, it’s just a matter of connecting with them at a more personal level.

What used to be a place where social media was ‘the neighbourhood’ which has been overtaken by the crazies, yielding guns and flags, hurling abuse at anyone and everyone, there’s also the Resistance, people who turn away from it all and follow quieter and creative pursuits with others.