Ghosting on LinkedIn and Facebook messenger

GhostingHow good are you at using LinkedIn? is it something that’s part of your daily or weekly habit?  are you, by any chance, in a LinkedIn group?I'm awful at LinkedIn. I mean really bad.  for somebody who loves connecting with people around the world, who has quite a few connections on LinkedIn, and who from time to time gets a few LinkedIn direct messages,  I'm a disgrace.I forget to look at LinkedIn for a month at a time -  I have all my notifications turned off.  I got a big surprise when I went into LinkedIn recently and found someone sent me a message in July. Ididn’t see it until yesterday.This  is the worst side of my communications habits.I’m also not very good on Facebook Messenger.  Once I pay attention to it I have quite a few of very good worthwhile connections with people. Sometimes I have extended text & audio conversations with individuals.  For ages I’ve known that sometimes I have several exchanges, they send a message, I put it on the long finger “I'll do it tomorrow,  reply tomorrow”. Tomorrow comes. I get distracted and forget to do it.  Weeks later, I find their unanswered message, their question, or even their very engaging comment. This is not good.  I'm a lot better on Facebook Messenger. LinkedIn  doesn't bother me all that much - but  I still wish it bothered me less. I should be able to get into Messenger every day because I go to Facebook daily. I always read messages publicly sent to me. I even send a response very quickly. Why am I telling you this?In case you feel you're the only one who has a life like this - on you’re feeling “only I could have such a such a shameful time”.in case you feel that kind of isolation,  I'm with you in solidarity.  now that I've told you, I’ve discovered that it’s quite a good way of getting me to change something.  When I say to someone that I'm not doing this well, it often causes me to make a much better effort to get better.Of course, I don't want to feel I'm the only one who finds this difficult.maybe from time to time I appear to have ghosted somebody. I haven't ever done that. Well, I have  a few times - but only a few times since 2007.I forgive myself. I say to myself that I had very good reasons for doing that. you know if somebody treats somebody else in a very unpleasant way, I'm likely to give up all contact with them, and have.If, in my opinion, someone insults me it's quite possible I'll just cut all communications with them - and won't even tell them. Recorded in the car on my way home from walking Louis - after finding a message sent to me last July