Finally cut the cord on my instagram and snapchat account, damn near completely freeing me from social media, and have to say - it feels good! I've been off Facebook for over a year now, and MySpace even longer than that! I never had a twitter, and if I could figure out how to disable my G+ account, I'd do it in a second without hesitation.

I'm debating disabling my LinkedIn account, as I never really use it. Some people say it's a pretty valuable asset, but I have yet to see anyone I know personally use it.

Any of you gents cut the cord on social media?

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91 560 SEC AMG - other dogs dd
01 Honda S2000 - dogs dd
07 MB ML320 CDI - dd
16 Lexus IS250 - wifes dd

it's automatic.

LinkedIn. Connect with people for no reason at all.

What you're no longer interested in other people's ****?

What you're no longer a team player?

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

I cut all that out and dropped idiotic political talk. Never been happier.

I cut the cord on people I never talk to on fb, don't really use Instagram. LinkedIn has been a very valuable asset for me and I regularly get folks reaching out to me for open positions so I'm def keeping that.


Sent from an abacus

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TC
Current stable:
- 2004 Mazda RALLYWANKEL
- 2007 Saturn sky redline
- 2004 Explorer...under surgery.

Past: 135i, GTI, 300E, 300SD, 300SD, Stealth

I belong to one closed FB group. It's members are all my relatives and we use it specifically for sharing genealogical and family history docs, fotos and the like. Once in a great while when I'm truly bored I'll surf around and look at pages of people I know. I see them spending inordinate amounts of time posting inane crap they found on other people's pages. No thanks.

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84 Euro 240D 4spd. 220.5k sold
04 Honda Element AWD
1985 F150 XLT 4x4, 351W with 270k miles, hay hauler
1997 Suzuki Sidekick 4x4
1993 Toyota 4wd Pickup 226K and counting

Personally, yes. I really enjoyed Facebook and dropping wise arse comments on other folks' pages, just spent way too much time doing it. Been almost 3 years now since I cut it.

Still on LinkedIn and Twitter for business, and have a fairly tight industry network for both, but gradually less so as we've hired a young buck to take over those duties. It's far more innate for him than for me or my brother due to our nearing old fart-ness. Eventually we'll have a Snapchat and Instagram presence since our customer demographics dictate we do.

LinkedIn is good for employee recruiting/headhunting and for those always on the lookout for a better opportunity. If you don't fall into one of those categories I don't see much value in it.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

According to some of the women/girls on this website:

https://www.seekingarrangement.com/

LinkedIn offers data mining GOLD. Seems the sugar babies like to go out on LinkedIn looking for financially successful SUGAR DADDIES. According to a recently aired cable television documentary, sometimes brokers/matchmakers are involved in the deal.

Sounds like that is probably a win-win situation.


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TC
Current stable:
- 2004 Mazda RALLYWANKEL
- 2007 Saturn sky redline
- 2004 Explorer...under surgery.

Past: 135i, GTI, 300E, 300SD, 300SD, Stealth

Possibly, but it appears to be quite a different use of LinkedIn than was originally presented. I always thought of LinkedIn as a networking site dedicated to BUSINESS networkers, not hookers looking for johns.

Sounds like business to me! LinkedIn has decent privacy settings, but they kind of defeat it's purpose to turn them on. The only spam I've gotten is from recruiters trying hard to get a hire. It's not uncommon to get a request from 3 different recruiters about the same exact job. It's a nice warm fuzzy feeling to know your profession is in demand though.


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TC
Current stable:
- 2004 Mazda RALLYWANKEL
- 2007 Saturn sky redline
- 2004 Explorer...under surgery.

Past: 135i, GTI, 300E, 300SD, 300SD, Stealth

When LinkedIn was new in the marketplace it was touted as a business networking/recruiting/job seekers environment, NOT a dating service. Not that dating services are bad (Match.com, eHarmony.com provide a much needed service) but a shovel is not a rake.

Let the speed daters hang out at Match.com and eHarmony.com while the hookers and johns can hangout at seekingarrangement.com.

OTH, business professionals tend to want to flock together in a professional business environment which appears to NOT be the case at LinkedIn. For those who can read the tea leaves this means one thing and one thing only. YOU ARE KNOWN BY THE COMPANY YOU KEEP. (one more time) YOU ARE KNOWN BY THE COMPANY YOU KEEP.

I don't want to present my business profile to an environment that is being used, abused and misused for OTHER purposes. Something tells me other genuine business professionals feel EXACTLY the same way.......

Never plugged in, , , ,

-c-

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I just get too much crap on LinkedIn. SEO optimization, etc. If someone wants a job get out and knock on doors and become known in the industry. Whatever you type on your profile is not creditable to me.

It is true that a lot of business' are going just social media advertising.

What's interesting is how will instagram make money eventually? There must be a plan of some sort.

Wait . . . how will you know what your friend from elementary school had for breakfast . . . or when everyone's birthday is . . . the horror!