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Written by Simone S on 2025-01-30 at 22:59

Experiment: during my quest to retreat to a sane lifestyle outside of the bloated tech bubble, I've started to erase "contacts" on LinkedIn en masse.

The rule is simple: if we didn't cross path, or worked together, or exchanged actual conversations, it's an instant severance.

Then, I want to play with the result: having started at 1,400 contacts, I should ideally end up with less than 200, I'm curious to see whether the network itself will still be a complete crap as it is now.

Probably yes.

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Written by Megan ⚘ on 2025-01-31 at 03:38

@m2m You may have heard of Dunbar's number. The maximum amount of relationships that we can comfortably manage in a social system is about 150. I still find this to be a good limit on most networks.

PS: Love the new avatar!

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Written by Simone S on 2025-01-31 at 08:12

@meg indeed I knew about Dunbar’s. In this case though it’s mostly people that I crossed paths with in my various jobs. I might go to the point where I also remove the ones that I have zero in common with.

It’s really more of an experiment. My gut feeling is that I might end up erasing my account altogether, as I feel the site is beyond useless now.

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