Or maybe I am getting a bit too dramatic here. Maybe not. Truth is I've been on LinkedIn since 2010 but in the past I would only log in once a month or so. But then last year I figured out that LinkedIn now is a Social Media platform. And that people are posting there pics of their pets, food, family, memes - and I thought, why not give it a shot? I mean how should people know you are now offering amazing services / products if you're not visible online.
So I started posting on LinkedIn, in early May I started. Every single day. And I discovered polls. And oh Lord, how much fun did I have creating absolute silly and hilarious polls. And people loved my polls. One weekend I dedicated polls solely to homemade mayonnaise. So after a while I was not only the infamous queen of polls but also the queen of mayo. And vodka since one weekend was in the name of making some fuzzy vodka lemonade for a change. I mean, lemons and vitamin C - quite important.
I had lots of fun posting 9 months on LinkedIn. But then I suddenly noticed that I felt a tremendous overwhelm. The dopamine highs, waking up to 30 notifications or more in the morning, dealing with trolls who never engaged with my content and then wrote mean comments, DMs with awful AI generated sales pitches, men messaging me or commenting obviously mistaken LinkedIn for Tinder.
And than I decided it's enough. I am sick of chasing impressions and followers - for a platform that is only rented property. Performing well on LinkedIn won't earn me money, pay my bills nor rent. So I deleted the app and made the decision to only post once or twice per week now. That's it. I immediately felt a lot calmer after deleting the app. I was happy to pick up a physical copy of.a book and just sit down and read. Oh how I missed it.
I decided to return to a more analog lifestyle in general. Because that's the kind of person I have always been. Making food from scratch, baking sourdough, taking notes on paper, buying notebooks and journals, drawing and illustrating on paper, painting on a canvas. That's my true self. And I wanna return to this now. Going on a digital detox.
Creating PDF journals that help you organize and declutter your life in order to take back ownership and to feel less overwhelm. That's my task now. And those PDFs I create are for printing out and filling them out with a pen. Because that just hits differently. Writing with a pen on paper is the real banger. It helps to set goals and to stick to them, to follow through your to-do-list, to learn a language. Yes, in all my years working as a freelance language teacher I always told my students to write as much on paper as possible because it helps them to get familiar with the new language and to learn better.
So here I am your paper and pen girl living her life in the analog world with books, art and sourdough.
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