I will stop using it of course. There is a price to pay for not being affected by this. Its not going to be free.

Ah you meant like that…

Yeah, the power these companies have over our lives is very disturbing. They have positioned themselves as something most academic people really need, at least linkedin has.

Then I will just update my profile to a link my own cv page.

Absolutely never using any service that requires this. I dont even have any account on those platforms and I never will.

To me it was 9/11 that started the insanity… Either way, if you look at movies from the 80s and movies from today, you clearly see the humanity lacking from todays movies.