Bye bye, LinkedIn

Today, I decided to close my LinkedIn account. I’d been mulling over this idea for a while, trying to weigh the PROS/CONS. The final result was that I couldn’t see much value on having that account, and I also realized I should be posting things on my own website instead

I still have my twitter account (@ricarbotics), but I’m thinking about shutting it down as well.

UPDATE (04/07/2022): After all my efforts, I couldn’t find another place where I can easily keep my professional contacts up to date (not everybody is on Twitter or have a personal website, github profile, maybe even email). So, for the time being I will keep my Linkedin account as an old business card binder…

UPDATE (23/12/2021): I decided to re-open my account because it was too deeply available on the search engines and I became afraid someone could take it over to create a fake account. So, now I’m back to LinkedIn, but without any contacts and almost zero personal info available for the time being.

UPDATE (04/02/2022): To be honest, after the Twitter take over by Musk, I started using LinkedIn more and it has been useful to learn about new papers, technologies, etc.