Yesterday, on the 5th anniversary of my retirement, I cancelled my accounts in LinkedIn and Twitter/X. I don't post on either anymore and I won't miss them. It was very easy to do with neither site trying to persuade me to stay. Both allow a grace period where I can change my mind, but it's not for me anymore.
LinkedIn was a great way to stay connected and up-to-date while I was working. I kept it on after retiring as initially I used it to promote my course on Udemy. I rarely looked it up after retirement and created very few posts in the past five years. I kept getting annoying daily emails about how much I was "noticed" and how many "searches" I showed up in. I did not see any reason to keep it up - hence the decision to end it.
Twitter/X was an easier decision to drop. I had only one tweet in the past five years and I almost never looked it up. I turned off notifications years ago, so I almost forgot I had it. Elon Musk changing the name to "X" made no difference to me, though his acting the bollix over the past few years certainly did not make me want to rush to see the latest X feed.
Despite rapidly declining revenues, I still have my YouTube channel and I am keeping Facebook. The number of posts on this blog has declined to a trickle, but I think I'll keep it going - even if there are very few posts. Social media holds little attraction for this pensioner - I enjoyed it for a few years, but the toxic nature of it today spoils it for everybody.
