I’m really tired of social networking. In the beginning, my beginning was on Orkut, I thought it was great. I found all these people I had long lost sight of and it was fun browing through other people’s contacts to see who else was there that I knew.
With LinkedIn came the hundreds of invitations, some of people I didn’t know at all. The awkwardness of thinking about whether to accept or reject an invitation, multiplied by at least one such awkward invitation a week just got me thinking…
What has LinkedIn done for me lately? It has caused me work, and awkward cringes and it has given, well, absolutely nothing in return.
So, I just cancelled my account (which needs to be done by emailing customer support). I’ll cancel my Hyves and Orkut accounts too, since I never log in there anymore.
So don’t worry if you see me disappear: it’s nothing personal…
I almost feel sorry for somewhat randomly adding you on LinkedIn. You are probably right: especially when you already know ‘enough’ people, it takes more energy than it is worth. Perhaps LinkedIn is just nice for the sales people and headhunters, Hyves for popularity contests and Orkut for Brazilian spammers.
For honestly interested people, there are websites and weblogs; for communication, there is e-mail.
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Well, it’s a pity Facebook decided to go all-the-way privacy evil the same month that I got an account. But then, I treat it as a publication platform and I don’t treat it as if I have any privacy there anyway. I’m sure evolution has a cozy place for those that use Facebook as a replacement for e-mail and gpg.
Hyves for popularity contests and Orkut for Brazilian spammers.