I never thought about joining LinkedIn because I didn’t feel like I was enough of a “professional” to have a profile there, because I haven’t had a paid position in any professional field since the 1990s. I used to be a book review writer for Publishers Weekly and editor/writer for two medical journals, but that was a long time ago. I wrote book reviews and also did some proofreading/freelance editing for several years after I moved to North Carolina. (I’m not writing a resume here, mmmkay?)

Due to narcissistic abuse at the hands of those closest to me, I lost all my self esteem and all my motivation due to severe PTSD. Being an Aspie too certainly doesn’t help.
I also spent most of the 1990s and early 2000s as a stay at home wife and mother.

I had the confidence today to go ahead and set myself up on LinkedIn and found several people I know there who read this blog. It’s another way to get this blog out there to an even wider audience. Unfortunately I did have to use my real name there, but I can live with that.
The main reason I’m doing this right now though is so I can link my articles to that as well as Twitter and StumbleUpon. (I only rarely connect my articles to Facebook as too many people from my past know me there, including my FOO).

If any of you have a LinkedIn account or want to make one, please follow me there:

You can also follow me on Twitter.