Social Media, You Got Dumped

After careful consideration I’ve decided to opt out of participating in external social media sites. I no longer have active accounts with Twitter, Google+, Facebook, or YouTube. They’ve all been closed, deleted, or otherwise nuked. Yesterday I had tens of thousands of followers on those services. Now I have zero. To opt out even more fully, I’ve also removed all social media recommendation buttons from my website. This de-clutters the site a bit and helps some pages load faster. Why? This is something I’ve been thinking about doing for years and finally decided to take the plunge. It’s not that I hate social media. But I do feel done with it and want to explore more interesting facets of life. I want to keep learning and growing in ways that matter to me, and social media doesn’t matter to me anymore. Years ago I had a personal Facebook account maxed out at 5000 friends and a fan page with thousands more followers. I shut those down and stopped using Facebook at the end of 2010. In retrospect, it was definitely the right decision to drop it. I think that dropping Facebook helped make 2011 such a great year for me, including taking my first trip to Europe (ahhh… Paris!) and creating and delivering some new workshops. Last summer, at the request of some friends, I created a new personal Facebook page to keep in touch with some people who really wanted an alternate way of staying in touch. I set the account to the maximum privacy setti...
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