Like many others and OP - I don't participate in "social" part at all and the employer does not require it and I too have been employed for ~2 decades in the in

Like many others and OP - I don't participate in "social" part at all and the employer does not require it and I too have been employed for ~2 decades in the industry, 17 of which with same employer (with full freedom to be creative and everything a senior dev expects from a good employer). I'm not interested in writing blogs, I use Obsidian to create snippets and link up things I stumble upon and find useful or to note down my own code snippets, techniques and similar. I find blogs very hard to read, I often need technical info only (i.e. config reference, code sample or syntax example). The whole "social" part of the current web is not something I can relate to at all, it feels fake and too inflated with useless information so I tend to avoid it. If there were requirements to virtue signal, to write blogs, to write all over Linkedin "I am great but I would not be here without my $team of awesome $people who inspire me $some_other_generic_motivational_anal_alpinism" - I think I'd burn out and pursue a different career. I ignore the popular "social" platforms, I use IRC and phpbb/vbulletin based forums to interact with people that have similar non-work-related interests. I don't think I'm missing out on anything and I feel no curiosity to be a part of this post-2010. part of social web.