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Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by woah »

77pt77 wrote: post #70
tajen wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> fire people, based on their opinions. Lest we forget: - Brendan Eich, former CEO of Mozilla, fired for a donation, - Douglas Crockford, uninvited from NodeVember, the general opinion is that he said something that a woman didn't like, - Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder and former CEO of GitHub, upon an unproven accusation, - And all people and the 2 colleagues who have been fired in smaller companies, in smaller even…

> Douglas Crockford, uninvited from NodeVember, the general opinion is that he said something that a woman didn't like Anything to back that up?

I don't want to look for it right now, but somebody dug up a "do you have the gonads for monads" speech and was offended by the mention of gonads. I think the conference that uninvited him ended up reinviting him.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by manmal »

cocochanel wrote: post #39

I quit Facebook for 6 months and I felt that a big burden was dropped off my shoulders. I found myself reading more books and frequenting a lot of interesting blogs and discussions. I also focused on personal projects without the need of social validation. Then I reactivated it for a week to give sign of life to my "friends", but felt a pressure to be active, to post and respond to messages. I had gone back to checki…

What about Twitter?

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by FreezerburnV »

ethanbond wrote: post #79
TheGirondin wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- GrubHub CEO saying that anyone who voted for Trump is not welcome.

That's not really what he said. He said that a Trump victory makes some people fearful, and he wants a workplace that fosters the opposite of that, and that if you cannot foster an inclusive and diverse workplace that you are not welcome. I don't think what he did say was quite eloquent and it was clearly emotionally heated, but it didn't imply nor state that Trump voters are unwelcome.

"... and these views, have no place at Grubhub. ... If you do not agree with this statement then please reply to this email with your resignation because you have no place here."

Obviously only excerpts from the full email[0], but seems to contradict what you just said pretty heavily. If I was someone who voted for Trump that worked at Grubhub, I know that I would have been afraid for my job after that email. Possibly even still would be, and might even consider moving jobs in order to not be afraid of that.

[0] The full original text of his email is at the bottom of this page: http://media.grubhub.com/media/press-releases/press-release-...

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by Klathmon »

hashtagMERKY wrote: post #31

This part really resonated with me: > Consider that the ability to concentrate without distraction on hard tasks is becoming increasingly valuable in an increasingly complicated economy. Social media weakens this skill because it’s engineered to be addictive. The more you use social media in the way it’s designed to be used — persistently throughout your waking hours — the more your brain learns to crave a quick hit…

Actually I've found that by setting up a blocker on my devices that I can toggle on and off at will is enough.

When I start the workday, I toggle it on, and every time I try to load my social stuff (HN included) it puts up a big red warning.

I found that the majority of my wasted time was because I impulsively opened a tab to somewhere during like 10 seconds of downtime while waiting for something. And having this little block in place stopped it in its tracks.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by selectodude »

thro32 wrote: post #82
evgen wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There are just bigots who can not tolerate different opinions. Nor are they obligated to. To paraphrase, I may defend your right to speak your opinion but I am not required to be your friend or to spare you from any social consequences of your speech. Make no mistake, there has never been a time when unpopular speech did not have consequences for the speaker and if this bothers you then feel free to exercise your r…

Is "lynch mob" and "getting fired" covered under "social consequences" or under "defend your right to speak" ?

Sounds like a false equivalency. People are fired for the things they say all the time, I'm not sure where lynching comes in.

Freedom of speech means the government cannot throw you in jail for the things you say. That is it. Short of violence, everyone else has the freedom of speech to tell you how reprehensible you are without limitations.

This idea that people have the right to say whatever they want without repercussions due to "freedom of speech" is a meme that needs to go away.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by jeremejevs »

Why throw the baby out with the bathwater?

What I did was I've unsubscribed from all people and pages on Facebook, unsubscribed from all Reddit subs, and unsubscribed from all YouTube channels. In the end, I've learned to stop visiting facebook.com, since all I was seeing was an empty page, but at the same time I avoided giving up my network, and I can still check up on people when I remember about them, I can keep using Messenger and I can keep using Facebook as an identity provider on other websites. Not to mention that this way I don't have to throw out years of stuff generated by me (which can be painful with photos, especially for a data hoarder like me). Same goes for Reddit and YouTube (I keep my comment and post history, the ability to participate in discussions, my uploaded videos, and more).

For Hacker News, which is too valuable to me as a knowledge expanding tool, I did something else: I've started using the "top 10" section on hckrnews.com. I can keep checking it however many times I want, but I'll get stuck in at most 10 comment threads per day, which I consider to be a reasonable compromise (this thread being one of them ).

Never used Twitter, but I suppose something similar can be accomplished by muting all the accounts you're following.

YMMV.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by II2II »

AstroJetson wrote: post #75
sotojuan wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not impossible. I went from a hourly checker to only checking it twice a week. You just need to practice self control and realize most tech news aren't interesting or useful to know.

Interested to know how long your twice a week sessions are and how far you go back in the pages? I come twice a day for 10 mins and then once a week going back to article 90. Total time for the week is just under 3 hours, but I feel I've learned something.

It may also be a question of how you use sites like HN. I've found that this site is useful for learning when I simply click on the headlines and ignore the comments. Yes, the comments are informative. On the other hand, I have found that reading comments is a behaviour that I have adopted to procratinate (rather than to gain deeper insight).

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by xexers »

santiagobasulto wrote: post #21

I found this hard truth by myself. I noticed how my attention spans were decreasing. I've always been a really distracted person, but social media made it worst. I ended up adding Facebook, Twitter,9gag, Reddit and other sites to my /etc/hosts (0.0.0.0). Was the only way to fix it. While I work I leave my phone at a distant table, with notifications turned down. The only thing that I get are phone calls. I remember S…

> to my /etc/hosts (0.0.0.0). Was the only way to fix it.

I like that fix! I tried to limit myself awhile ago by getting a chrome plugin to limit my access to only lunchtime... but I would simply get around it by opening firefox instead :(

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by selectodude »

thro32 wrote: post #51
throwaway-hn123 wrote: post #38

So if your co-worker believes that, for example, black people and gays are subhuman and expresses that view you think that's ok and we should all just put up with it?

Yes, it is free country. Big part of HN believe that black people, gays and even women are "subhuman" who need special help and special protection.

It's a free country insofar as the government will not put him in jail or otherwise silence him for having those views.

I don't need to put up with those views. He has freedom of speech, but he does not have freedom of venue.

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