How often do you update your profile?

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   Kenna McHughposted 5 years ago

   I just updated my profile, and I am curious. Have you ever updated your profile or made slight changes to it?

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      chef-de-jourposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      Two years ago plus I performed a major overhaul - in light of a substantial increase in niche views - to give visitors more info on my background and to give the profile a stronger foundation. 
      A month ago I updated again, adding a bit more, actual viewing stats, which I hadn't done before.
      I never used to think the profile that important, now I'm not so sure. It's a question of balance - too much info can put people off, too little leaves them dissatisfied.

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         Kenna McHughposted 4 years agoin reply to this

         chef-de-jour, Your profile tells a story about you. I am impressed. We have a few things in common: theater, sports, and the love of walking.

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            Cristaleposted 4 years agoin reply to this

            This is not a dating site.

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   Wesman Todd Shawposted 5 years ago

   Eh, I put my two successful baseball things on the display during baseball season. The text? Some of it has been there from the very start. I'm not convinced my bit of biography on there is useful to me much at all. I do look at it and tweak it every so often.
   
   I'm pretty me first here. I'm not a big community guy. I will help people when I think I've got the answer to their questions, but for the most part, I'm really just interested in creating good content. New content. For some reason I've yet to figure out, I don't like messing with older stuff. I seem to only want to create new stuff.
   
   Sometimes I see someone say something interesting, and I'll go to read their 'about' section. A lot of the time I find they've not put much of anything there.

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   viryaboposted 5 years ago

   Maybe I need to do something about mine. In 10 years, I’ve only updated it once and that was about 5 years ago.

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   Kenna McHughposted 5 years ago

   Viryabo, you can look at others and see if you need to update for the trend.

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      viryaboposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks, Kenna. Will do just that.

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   Kenna McHughposted 5 years ago

   Let me know when you have updated your profile. I'd like to check it out.

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      viryaboposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      Okay. Will do.

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      viryaboposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      Done. Finally.

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         Kenna McHughposted 5 years agoin reply to this

         Nice job. I play scrabble, too.

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            viryaboposted 5 years agoin reply to this

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   FatFreddysCatposted 5 years ago

   Whenever I post a new article I add it to the "In the Spotlight" rotation on my profile. Does that count as "updating?"
   
   Otherwise, I think the last time I updated was when I won the "Funniest Hubber" award last year, I changed my bio to mention that I had won said award for two years running.

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   misslong123posted 5 years ago

   I really never thought about until recently. I think I made an update about 5 or so years ago when I got married and moved. My life had changed so I updated my profile. Now, it has been another 5 years and I recently updated my profile again. I think that's really a good rule of thumb - 5 years unless you have a significant life changing event or if something in your profile makes a dramatic change. This also holds true for things like changes in your job as a writer, like if you publish a book.
   
   That's my point of view anyway. Best of luck!

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   Marie Flintposted 4 years ago

   I've been a little ambitious in changing my profile picture, as I try to keep it similar to my Facebook page. So, maybe quarterly it gets changed. Since I'm now residing in Michigan for the summer, I should update the content.

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   Doneta Wrateposted 4 years ago

   I think the two are made for each other.

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    Kenna McHughposted 4 years ago

    It's not!!!? Dang, oh poppy seeds.

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