About me
Travis Giffin - Retired wanderer. Looking for my permanent spot so I can contemplate what's next. I like travel, finance, great dining experiences, and would like to meet my person too! Send me an email if you would like to chat.
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Social Media
I recently deleted my LinkedIn account, and it was the last social media account I had. I am sorry - you won't be able to verify me through any of these sites now. The rest have been gone since around 2017, when I left corporate America.
My reasons go back to my career. I spent 30 years in marketing technology, and a big part of that work involved the same tracking and data systems these platforms are built on. Every click, view, and comment gets packaged and sold, and their tracking scripts sit on millions of business websites beyond the platforms themselves, which is why ads seem to follow you from site to site. I understood how it all worked because I helped companies implement it.
Somewhere along the way, the whole industry went from something fairly simple and ethical to something I no longer wanted any part of it to track me, so I opted out completely.
Since then, the spam calls have mostly stopped, and the junk email has dropped way off. Plus, I no longer get 100 LinkedIn requests per day. I'm not on a crusade to convince anyone to do the same, but after 30 years of building this stuff, walking away from being tracked and no more doom-scrolling has been nothing but positive for me.
I hope you enjoy the content I have provided.
Thank you
Travis Giffin
Here are a few pages I have pulled from the main menu that you might be interested in reading.