I'm considering going off X and LinkedIn for "networking", which are the only real reasons I've kept those accounts, and relying on email, personal website, and going to physical conferences regularly.
It seems that social networking isn't actually providing much value for me in a "professional" sense. People that know my work seem to have seen it on my website or in talks, or heard about it by word-of-mouth.
X probably has some part to play still, but it doesn't seem at all as important as it did 5-7 years ago, perhaps because of the scattered social network situation after Elon.
My most valuable connections and opportunities seem to rely on actually meeting people, making friends, direct messaging, and published work.
Not sure if I'm thinking about this backwards or missing something? Would love to hear how others deal with it.
@bjoreman yeah, there might be some hard-to-measure effect.
@bjoreman for that reason I'm staying on here, at least.
@owi Maybe LinkedIn and X could serve to remind folks about you at a time when they're ready to use/purchase? In marketing, people talk about this as "salience".
@cford like using it as write-only maybe?
@owi Yeah, I think that could make sense. Post links to talks or whatever. You could schedule and forget, cheaper on your time and attention.
@cford could work, but I'm afraid of falling back into the abyss.
@cford could also bet on others posting the articles. Sometimes that happens and they get traction without my active involvement.
@owi Sure, that makes sense.
@owi It makes a lot of sense to me, I can definitely believe that the professional (especially) value of social networking is a lot more limited than we imagine. Reaching out quickly to people is probably the main convenience I actually use, and there are so many other ways of doing that.