This morning God said to me, Come home, back to your platform, you and Me. So I cancelled my LinkedIn Premium account after God said, Let go of what’s in your hand and I will let go of what is in mine. God then made it clear he wasn’t relinquishing what was in his hands until I left LinkedIn. So I signed off of LinkedIn completely.
Brief History of Social Media
Listening to Writing off Social Media’s first episode, Why We Left Social Media, surprised me when I heard how young social media is.
Facebook, 2004; Twitter now X 2006. YouTube 2005, LinkedIn 2003, Instagram 2010, and Pinterest 2010.
Now with that in mind, I am going to talk about the history of the one I was part of for eight years, LinkedIn. According to “A Guide to Social Media Marketing for Small Businesses,” LinkedIn, which launched in 2003, has grown into the world’s largest professional network, boasting over 380 million members across more than 200 countries and territories. “
My Experience with Social Media
This is where I come in. Please humor me as I take a trip down memory lane. Before 2018, the only network I was part of was a Homeschooling blog network. Then, in November 2018, I started working as an independent sales representative for a homeschool magazine company. The head of the sales department encouraged us to have an account on LinkedIn as another way to reach out to our clients. At first, it seemed alright, though reaching out to clients on LinkedIn didn’t always yield the best returns. Even long after I left the company to pursue writing as my career, I stayed on LinkedIn.
I was on Alignable for a brief season. One day God said to me, “It’s just another network to keep track of.” As candidly as could be, nothing special, move on basically, so I did! Of all days, he said this when I was doing some sorting. God had some sorting of his own. He wasn’t concerned about the clutter. He was concerned about the one extra thing in my life that didn’t belong! When God encourages you to let go of what’s in your hand he has something bigger and better in mind.
Let go of what’s in your hand and I will let go of what is in mine.
Change of Direction
On December 1st, I started an Advent Bible Study titled Faithful Christmas. The theme verse is I Thessalonians 4:11. I’m getting a lot of direction from these lessons. It’s not too late to sign up. Interesting, this all reminds me of the day when God asked me to leave the magazine company I worked for and come work for him. He also told me that with each passing day my dreams were getting further away. I say this because I had plans to write and sought out a job instead and thought to myself I can write too. Nope, there came a point where I had to leave that position to have the time to write.
Well, here I am again, except this time I have four self-published books, a couple of classes, a guest writer for Christian Book Academy and a blog. The world would say now is the time to tap into social media. I’ve done that for years and have seen little fruit. No major crop yields. LinkedIn has changed. LinkedIn has become a clanging cymbal! Yesterday I wrote a goodbye post to my network. God compared LinkedIn to a clanging cymbal and an over-saturated highway. My home, my website, is a quiet walk in the country much like the first garden — just God and me building a place for the tired and hungry wanderer.
This morning God said to me, Come home, back to your platform, you and Me. So I cancelled my Premium after God said, Let go of what’s in your hand and I will let go of what is in mine. God then made it clear he wasn’t relinquishing what was in his hands until I left LinkedIn. So I signed off of LinkedIn completely. Afterwards I heard God say…and on that she left! I signed off social media in pursuit of more!
"Step out of traffic! Take a long, loving looking at me, your High God, above politics, above everything." Psalm 46:10 (MSG)
Is there something God is asking you to let go of?
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