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Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn

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Re: Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn

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Post by whatshisface »

There's some who argue that having all of your life in one place, recorded, won't be a problem because society will be forced to shift in a more liberal direction and stop judging people. The alternative outcome is that this forces a hard crystallization around various very specific cultures, where for every community there's a list of "weird stuff that everyone does," and "stuff that gets you ostracized." So for example going to furry conventions might end up assigned to Googlers, and going to church assigned to machinists. That seems a lot more likely, given human nature.

Re: Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn

#7

Post by wickawic »

paulie_a wrote: post #2

LinkedIn uselessness with Facebook creepiness™

I actually like LinkedIn because hey know they are the internet’s Rolodex and (more importantly) people on the site mostly use it that way. If I were pressured by society/peers to be “active” on LinkedIn in the same way we are pressured in an abstract sense to be on Facebook, it would lose all utility for me.

Re: Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn

#8

Post by EpicEng »

whatshisface wrote: post #4

There's some who argue that having all of your life in one place, recorded, won't be a problem because society will be forced to shift in a more liberal direction and stop judging people. The alternative outcome is that this forces a hard crystallization around various very specific cultures, where for every community there's a list of "weird stuff that everyone does," and "stuff that gets you ostracized." So for exa…

>society will be forced to shift in a more liberal direction and stop judging people

Really? This hasn't been my experience at all. FB can be just as toxic as e.g. a youtube comment section, and what I see more often than not is people self selecting based on who agrees with them nearly 100% of the time.

Re: Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn

#9

Post by space_fountain »

EpicEng wrote: post #8
whatshisface wrote: post #4

There's some who argue that having all of your life in one place, recorded, won't be a problem because society will be forced to shift in a more liberal direction and stop judging people. The alternative outcome is that this forces a hard crystallization around various very specific cultures, where for every community there's a list of "weird stuff that everyone does," and "stuff that gets you ostracized." So for exa…

>society will be forced to shift in a more liberal direction and stop judging people Really? This hasn't been my experience at all. FB can be just as toxic as e.g. a youtube comment section, and what I see more often than not is people self selecting based on who agrees with them nearly 100% of the time.

Ops point seems to be exactly that that is the most likely outcome rather than the nicer sounding alternative.

Re: Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn

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Post by nathan_long »

wickawic wrote: post #7
paulie_a wrote: post #2

LinkedIn uselessness with Facebook creepiness™

I actually like LinkedIn because hey know they are the internet’s Rolodex and (more importantly) people on the site mostly use it that way. If I were pressured by society/peers to be “active” on LinkedIn in the same way we are pressured in an abstract sense to be on Facebook, it would lose all utility for me.

What bugs me is getting asked by people I know in a personal context to recommend them professionally. I can vouch that they are reasonably nice, but I don't know anything about their work.

If I worked directly with someone and know they're good, I'm happy to endorse that.

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