I have been an active user of LinkedIn for many years but recently, it seems to have suffered a decline that I do hope isn’t terminal. It has become Facebook on steroids. The good thing about LinkedIn was its networking and business focus. It was easy to use and easy to find people for whatever business purpose. It was also wonderful to stay in touch with people from the past. I used it all the time and for a while, even paid for premium membership. Then, suddenly, the platform made things very hard. Searching on people became impossible or at least very difficult. Things that had been free became paid and advertising began to take up much more space. Well, I know its a business and it needs to make money so I suppose I could live with that. I am still upset about how they made it so difficult to search for people even in your won network though. But recently, my feed is filled with political opinion posts. This to me is intolerable. It’s supposed to be a networking site so when I am suddenly presented with the 3 second opinion of a ‘colleague’ on a political issue… continue reading