Golly I have been busy. 

Lent ended on March 23rd and along with it my experiment in giving up social networks.  Unlike 2007 when I gave up Google and Yahoo! for Lent and quickly returned to them, I have yet to really engage again with LinkedIn and Facebook.  I deleted my MySpace account.  I cheated with the social networking aspects of Twitter long before Lent was over.

I don’t miss LinkedIn or Facebook at all.   At the moment I have 119 messages in my LinkedIn account and 49 messages in my Facebook box and 2 requests.   I try to keep up with requests for joining the groups I created on Facebook but other than that interact little with either site.  I did try to use LinkedIn to find a network engineer to create a network architecture for Piedmont Park (more on that later) and found their new layout a bit confusing. 

When I did the blog redesign I removed my LinkedIn profile.  Search works just fine for finding me and getting connected.  Interested to know if you find yourself using broad based social nets more or less these days.