Leaving Linkedin To Linkedin: Voluntarily Closing 4,000 Connection Linkedin Account + 97 User Generated Groups

To help ease Linkedin's apparent paranoia regarding power users like me who've used their logo for the past 4 years, I've decided to delete my Linkedin account, effective today, May 27, 2008.

Current Details of My Linkedin Account (and associated social media work):
1. Member in good standing since February 23, 2004
2. Current First Level Connections: 4,042
3. Recommendations: 144 (38 co-workers, 17 clients, 89 partners)
4. User Generated Groups: 95 (See list below*)
5. Memberships in groups I've created ON Linkedin: ~50,000+
6. Associated social media groups, blogs, and forums I've created off Linkedin: ~1,000
7. Memberships in groups I've created OFF Linkedin: ~75,000+
8. Groups I support ON Linkedin: 214 (unknown number of members)
9: Groups I support OFF Linkedin: ~1,200 (well over 1 Million members)
10. Link used to close Linkedin account:
https://www.linkedin.com/secure/setti...

Though it may seem sacrilege to close a 4 year old account with so much user generated data associated with it, that data is virtually useless unless you're motivated to use it and unless you can trust the organization where you've built up that data...

Thus, I'm leaving Linkedin to Linkedin and voluntarily deleting an account which has been at the center of my attention for more than 4 years...

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Keep STRONG!
Vincent Wright
VincentWright.com (My New Profile)
MyLinkingPowerForum.com (Ning (2,600 members))
MyLinkedinPowerForum.com (Yahoo (8,800 members))
MyLinkedinPowerForum.biz (Linkedin (8,500 members))
MyLinkedinPowerForum.net (Facebook (1,500 members))

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