KJM Legal has had accounts on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter since 2018. We’ve never been terribly active on any of them. The broad landscape of social media is continuing to change (I’m old enough to remember when MySpace was social media and to have not been able to open a Facebook account because I wasn’t a university student).
The ways social media is currently changing, I’m not convinced it’s useful for KJM Legal to make use of Facebook, Instagram or Twitter other than to point to content here. On the one hand, these are currently mainstream, readily useable sites with apps that work on Apple and Android phones. I know there are specific groups on Facebook that try to help families of disabled children as well as groups for disabled people, which are currently useable. On the other hand, the way these three sites are now being run (or are about to be run) poses risks to LGBTQ+ people and disabled people. Once somewhere becomes less safe for one marginalised group, the likelihood is it will become less safe for others. And even if it remains ‘safe’ enough, it’s unclear how useful it will remain, as more people move elsewhere.
Putting time into creating content on a site where I don’t have editorial control is always a bit risky; I have seen people lose accounts they rely upon for business purposes because of automated decision making deciding their content was inappropriate for a site. Pointing to content here seems like the best available option, bearing in mind people will still be using Facebook, Instagram and Twitter because they’re ‘easy’ and ‘just work’, which is important when time is limited.
I am not aware of similar concerns about LinkedIn.
KJM Legal now has a BlueSky account. At the moment BlueSky seems possibly more suitable for engaging in conversation.
I’m not adverse to having a KJM Legal account if I can identify a Mastadon instance that’s ok with business accounts. I’m also not adverse to creating a KJM Legal Discord server, if I ever have clients who’d actively like to be put in touch with each other.