I’m deleting my LinkedIn and My Space accounts. Yea!
Every so often, when my technology gets out of hand, I trim fat to reduce unwanted noise — to simplify my life.
Last year, I put my RSS reader on a diet, going from over 400 subscriptions to just 67 (I’m down to 46 currently). This year I’m cutting two “unsociable” networks from my geek intake: LinkedIn, the high school year book of web professionals, and My Space, the new Hotmail of social networks.
LinkedIn is stale, lifeless, and has yielded zero fruit for me personally since first joining in 2004. So I’ve begun the archaic process of deleting my 90 connection account via email, as opposed to a simple button click and confirmation (I told you they were stale). I’ve heard the removal turnaround can take weeks. I’ll update if and when it happens.
Additionally, I’m deleting my unused My Space account after less than a year of membership. Sure it let me connect with old high school buddies, but the site is trashy and far inferior to Facebook.
So long, suckers.
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April 11th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
I used to bag on Linkedin until about six months ago. Then I started to see what you can really do with the service. A start up I work with is using it as a tool to generate leads and its working great. Yesterday I had a high profile company contact me about a consulting gig. They located me through Linkedin. I’ll be holding on to my Linkedin profile for some time to come.
On the other hand, I have seriously considered dumping my Facebook account. I have seen little to no value in Facebook.
I agree with you on Myspace.
May 1st, 2008 at 6:30 pm
I don’t like myspace much, and I think facebook is going down the drain because it’s become choked with ads lately. The same is starting to happen with all google-stuff: youtube, and even google.com keeps having those annoying promotions like ‘flip off all your lights today’ on the homepage.