I think I’m finally over LinkedIn.
Sunday, October 18, 2026 at 18:33:29
LinkedIn has been around for a long time, When it first started, it was a place to put your resume and a way for you to talk a little bit about your doings in the working world. That was fine…then Microsoft bought it and turned it into a social network with all of the baggage that involves. karens everywhere, political spammers, AI slop so bad they had to make a joke button about reporting AI slop (while here’s some tools we’ve made to help you make more AI slop!) and all of the OMFG bad words bad words! you can handle.
I can hear the comments now. I’ve been over LinkedIn for years. I don’t blame you.
Let’s set the stage for our performance:
In technology, there are terms that we need to use that karen doesn’t like, words that offend her. Words like:
Stopcock
Master-Slave
Crippleware
Dummy values
Male/Female
Various mnemonics for the color codes
And, of course, there’s television. You had the Indian Head logo, and a whole bunch of terms for early CRTs:
Suicide Tubes
Widomakers
Mankillers
Where did these come from? Well, the early CRTs used a metal shell (the “bell”) as the accelerating anode. That is, the entire tube had high voltage on it. You reach in when the set is on, you get 25kV, and you’re off to see the wizard. Some companies tried to mitigate this with a plastic coating, but the fact remained that you had a massive area of high voltage just inside the box waiting for unsuspecting fingers. There was also the technical problems of leaky glass-to-metal seals, but that’s a different story.
So why am I over LinkedIn? I think that last term did me in. Mankiller.
I recently posted a picture taken at the Early Television Museum in Hilliard, Ohio. That of a DuMont RA-119 television. It used a 30” B&W CRT, and was the largest B&W set ever made. And yes, it had a giant metal bell that was at the accelerating potential voltage. Big enough that you could hug it.
The image simply does not convey how big this thing is. You buy a house for your television with this one. It was expensive, and wasn’t really made for you and I. Let’s just say this thing is massive. Enormous. Giant. Is that enough adjectives?
In the discussion about that set, someone made a comment about obsolescence. I made the comment that the biggest fault with these was the mankiller CRTs that leaked and had high voltage on the shell.
I’m only guessing of course. I’ve receive no indication of account problems. Just logged out and forced to identity verify again. No appeal notice, no indication that I did something wrong, nothing. And that’s about the way modern platforms go - they hold all the power and refuse to tell you what you did wrong according to them.
So…what did I do? No idea. That’s my guess however. I submitted the required documents, but there’s no way for me to explain my case, or even see my case.
I’m over the site, because it doesn’t really do much anymore. I mean, I’ll probably open a new account if that one is locked, but it will simply be as it was put to me: my professional business card. Here’s my profile, here’s links to my portfolios, no posts, comments, feed views, nothing. It’s simply not worth the time to mess with it these days, especially if you’re going to get the karen-and-kumar-squad terminating you for using a valid tech term they thought was bad.
Assuming I can get back in, I’ll grab the few contacts I need and remove all of the comments and posts, leaving nothing but the resume. Yes, I could just kill it right there and open a new one, but it’s more satisfying to me to delete everything and have people go “Why are you doing this?” Well, here is the reason. There’s also the crap with opening a new account, they require a lot more info these days that I’m simply not willing to give.
In conclusion or TL;DR, whatever, I don’t need facebook for business beyond just a place where some recruiter can lazily hit the inmail button with a junk local job that’s always hiring. And that’s all LinkedIn is these days - facebook for business.