I built my illustrious career on LinkedIn — then it banned me
After the platform cancelled me for sharing one too many truths, I turned to my army of animatronic fish, the only network still willing to listen.
“Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” sang Bobby McFerrin in 1988. It’s a refrain repeated millions of times by the world’s number one aquatic animal-based animatronic wall accessory, the Big Mouth Billy Bass.
Wandering the hallways of my house in recent weeks, triggering the motion sensors of the roughly 45 Big Mouth Billies I keep operational at any one time, that refrain has brought me great comfort following LinkedIn’s decision to delete my account.
It’s fitting, really, that it’s the Big Mouth Billy Bass I can turn to — and they to me, if functioning correctly — as this product was, in many ways, the reason I ever joined LinkedIn in the first place.
As some may be aware, I made the decision in the early 2000s to invest heavily in the product and the company which produced it, which at the time looked to be the future of entertainment.
