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m Just Big for My Age.
e B. Estrin
For the posting portion of the program, you’re just supposed to think of
witty things 24/7 or deliver a post of an article you don’t care about so people notice you. I’m getting noticed, all right. I just can’t reach out to them.
Same with Facing it. I think people are reeeallly stretching it here with stuff
to write about. I feel sorry for some of these little kids whose parents post
their pictures every single day. Problem is, I am not going to expose my
family (I’ve been cyberstalked viciously by a paralegal down in Atlanta who
is obsessed with me) so I’m not going to go through that again. Honestly. I
don’t know what to talk about on Facebook. I never learned that small talk
stuff.
There’s only so many times you can talk about the 105 degree heat, my
weight loss of 115 lbs or comment on someone’s cute puppy. I refuse to
talk about driving to work and the delay I had getting my Starbucks. Does
that make me less approachable? Or does it make me more like a real human being. And, just what is it that I’m supposed to do with 7,000 LI followers? Particularly under the politically correct guidelines and no-no’s. For
that matter, how do you know when anyone reads anything you posted on
LinkedIn?
It’s the great unknown. Are there readers out there? If so, give us a holler....
Hello! we’re over here! Am I the kid who noticed the Emperor wasn’t wearing any clothes? Does this make me a dinosaur or does it
make me realistic? Dinosaurs are somehow hard to miss. And no one wants
to tell you that you’re just totally inept.
If you’ve read this post, help me out here. Signal to me. Post to my blog.
Send me an IN email. Write here, put something in the LI groups I own
and cultivated: KNOW, OLP, Legal Vendors, Paralegal Mgrs, Vitual Paralegal,
Paralegal Group, eDiscovery Paralegal. I may have left one or two out.
Being a dinosaur doesn’t have to be that bad. Really, it doesn’t. It kind of
has a cache all its own. No one wants to be labeled a dinosaur. I don’t care
how many Godzilla movies are made. All dinosaurs want is just a little acknowledgement that they’re still here, still pokin’ along and still kickin’. I am
still kickin, aren’t I?
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