A LinkedIn Personality with 2.3M Followers Blocked Me Before She Died Last Week
A tribute with lessons that will leave you speechless and in tears.
I logged in to view her posts. She had blocked me.
Blocking might seem heartless. But I had no idea what she was going through. For the final six months of her life, I viewed her posts every week through someone else’s LinkedIn account.
Her name was Kirsty Bonner and she wrote inspirational posts on LinkedIn aimed at jobseekers. She suffered from post-traumatic stress (PTSD) which ended up taking her life on the 28th of August 2020.
Her work was dedicated to helping jobseekers find a new career, and find themselves in the process. I didn’t know her personally, but I did know people close to her. They all said she was a strong woman with a selfless dedication to helping others.
I’m not sure why she blocked me on LinkedIn.
I can only imagine that self-help content could be unhelpful to a person who is enduring PTSD. When a person uses the block button, often, it has nothing to do with the person they are blocking. Blocking on social media can be a way for people to decide what they do and don’t want to see.
