Boring, annoying, predictable messages hit my LinkedIn

Boring, annoying, predictable messages hit my LinkedIn

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That is it. I need a keyboard with a red 'Delete' key.

I suppose like most of the males I know of, online, I receive the connection requests from 'strange' women. In general, for a description, Proverbs 2: 16 seems to fit the context, quite often.

Proverbs 2: 16 New American Standard Version Bible (NASB) 16 To rescue you from the strange woman, From the foreign woman who flatters with her words...

Being finite, I cannot always know if someone is 'strange' immediately, so sometimes I will humour someone for maybe five minutes. There was just such a case, but this time, surprisingly on LinkedIn, which is the website for professionals. I certainly expect this kind of nonsense on TikTok, Twitter and Facebook, but not usually LinkedIn.

I immediately tune out and lose interest, because with each of these online social media, platforms, my location is provided, but I am almost always first asked where I am from. It is boring, annoying and predictable to be continually asked questions for which the answers are listed.

Then of course, before I delete them or ignore them, I am often asked if I am single or a related question. Sigh...

One would think 'scammers' could do a little bit more research, but I suppose that is wishful thinking. 

In the rare instances that I do write an online message to a female, that is almost always an intellectual type; I take the online, professional advice and try not to be boring, annoying and predictable in my messages. Gasp, maybe even thoughtful, respectful, humour is used. Oh know, that means that my messaging cannot all be cookie-cutter. That is work...

I am not the best person, socially, in crowds, I do not like interrupting conversations. I do not like lining up to talk with someone. I am in process. But, when I do socialize, I prefer a good in-person talk to online messaging in general. 

With a new career developing, separate from academic writing, I am not going to be on these websites as much...

But I will still, God-willing, prioritize my academic writing, when I can.