I am going to regret this, but 8 years after a tortuous mess of an extraction from (yecch I just hate typing in), well that “professional” social network that rhymes with “StinkedInn” I have been foolish enough to step back in there.

But there was a work thing that really demanded me to see some posts, and because this network only pretends to be of the web, I got weary of all the end arounds it took to get to see more or less something that exists on the web, behind the blue velvet ropes.

I got the info I needed, and already feel wave of regret.

Yes, I know conventional saying is that it’s important to be in there with all the other adults.

I decided I would make my profile the dullest lamest one ever and that it would just sit there in an obscure corner.

I am vying for the lamest LinkedIn profile ever.Save your time and do not look for me, ok?

I’ve not been following, not returning links, nor clicking on the 3 kajillion emails it sends me, the best ones with subject lines like “Alan, you’re really getting noticed”.

If you have clicked to follow and feel dissed that I have not reciprocated, it’s because I want to be a small thorn inside the algorithm, an outlier that clunks like a rock in the machine works.

Yeah, right, as if it makes a difference.

I am not playing the Linked** game, I will not eat click blue eggs and ham, Sam I am.

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Featured Image: 2014/365/57 Ignore All Warnings flickr photo by cogdogblog shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license the sign reading “road closed ahead” modified to read “Dullness Ahead” and in the background is a slightly transparent screen shot of my lamed Linked** profile.