So this week I made my LinkedIn page but it made me uncomfortable for the most part.  I don’t like being out there for the world to look up and see, I like being private. As you could see from my personal Facebook page I very rarely post and when I do it’s sharing something about a recipe or Veteran event and sometimes my kids.  I don’t believe in airing your issues on social media as some of my friends do and I know from experience when I was discussing this with the VP in my area that he does a social media search on everyone he is even thinking about interviewing and people have not gotten the job due to that search at times.  I am old enough to realize that if I wouldn’t want my mother to see something I definitely wouldn’t want a job or my current employer seeing it, which is why I keep it clean and “boring”.  So I don’t know what to do on a personal brand since this is again something that is uncomfortable for me.  I will say that I have a life moto which is “If you don’t like your circumstances, change them.”  So to me that is my personal brand.  But if I had to pick one of the other statements on the assignment I would say that I support/help/empower/activate others by being honest and sincere, by lifting people up and helping them find the things in life that make them happy.

I have created a LinkedIn account today but didn’t put a ton of information on it and I haven’t honestly done anything to any of my other social media sites.  I guess if I am making a social media strategy for myself it would be to post more things that are personal so that my friends and family can feel that they are somewhat connected.  I honestly used to post more, but with a messy divorce and custody battle I didn’t want him and his family being able to find out things.  I think that I am just still in that mindset.