Content I Quit You

I miss the days when you were not called Content. When you were an opinion article or a video that told a story.

I long for the time where a paragraph would end and leave me with something to think about or question, not a Sign me up or Subscribe to my email disguised within a summary of a how-to-do-it-yourself article.

As one of the content creators who has contributed to this digital ecosystem of blogs, articles and Youtube channels filled with useless regurgitated facts and infographics, I apologize. I failed you.

I hope content can find its way again. I am hopeful that the quality of writing found in (most) newspapers and some magazines will become part of the internet ecosystem?—?and not hidden behind what we now call “native” content.

I am not sure about what is happening here on @LinkedIn Publishing, but it is early days. Perhaps this can be what it was at the start @Linkedin ?

As for my part, I vow to write to inspire, communicate, amuse or simply just write because I have something to say.

Although I will struggle not to include a blatant self-promotion, or that inevitable call-to-action that is inherent within any piece of writing, video, Gif, meme, Vine, Live post and Broadcast that we sift through every day.

— I hereby quit publishing content for the sake of content.

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