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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
#62No... Just no! Facebook crawls into every portion of our lives. I killed my account because of its insidious feature creep. You don't put up photos of yourself in a swimsuit at work and would sue any workplace that demanded that you show them those pictures. You shouldn't bring your political beliefs into work, and would be uncomfortable if your boss cornered you and demanded to know how you felt about the president…
Why should I not bring my politics to work? Isn't bringing politics to work what got us the 40 hour work week and the weekend?
Maybe divisive politics would be an adequate qualifier? Workers’ rights don’t generally relate to people’s self-identities the way issues like Church vs State do, for example.
Re: Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn
#63"One in four people in the US have searched for or found a job using Facebook"
[citation needed]
Re: Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn
#64I have to admit I've found at least 3 jobs through facebook. I still hate this though. I don't want employers to see my facebook.
Re: Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn
#65> Meanwhile, job seekers can discover openings, auto-fill applications with their Facebook profile information And soon we will need discussion on how a job seeker is being shunned at a workplace for his/her personal views which came bundled with these auto-fill forms. I can be wrong but whenever I read stuff like these it seems to me companies, specially social networking, are running out of ideas and just scraping…
Hopefully this doesn't stick 2 years from now. "Must apply via our Facebook listing - please have the show all photos checkbox selected" - Granted, that probably won't affect white collar workers as heavily
Do do believe Facebook is on it's way out, but I created a fake real-name profile to guard against a future where it's more ubiquitous and I'm expected to give others access to it.
Re: Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why should I not bring my politics to work? Isn't bringing politics to work what got us the 40 hour work week and the weekend?
> Why should I not bring my politics to work? Isn't bringing politics to work what got us the 40 hour work week and the weekend? There are different kinds of politics. There's the old saying "never discuss politics or religion at the dinner table," and I think the "politics" there are the kind that are more akin to religious belief: beliefs that are strongly held, where compromise is difficult or impossible, and have…
Even for the politics that "got us the 40 hour work week and the weekend", I think the integration is problematic. Essentially Facebook has traditionally been a social network first, and many people's Facebook activity feed reflect more what they do "off hours" and are more conversational in nature. It is relatively easy to skim profile feeds (entire histories of data), and it just seems like it isn't a big step to imagine nefarious employers running sentiment analysis on Facebook timelines just to eliminate characteristics they don't like... including characteristics it is illegal to discriminate against now.
For instance, in the politics that "got us the 40 hour work week and the weekend" it is illegal to overtly not hire someone just because they expressed sympathetic pro-union views (https://www.nlrb.gov/rights-we-protect/whats-law/employers/d...). But what stops an employer with direct links to a profile from running analysis on posts exactly for that? Such a thing it seems would be hard to detect.
Re: Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn
#67I sure hope when applying for a job via FB, companies do not have access to your sensitive FB information. FB needs to make clear what information they will never share with job posters.
> I sure hope when applying for a job via FB, companies do not have access to your sensitive FB information.
Oh, they won't...unless they pay for the premium package.
Re: Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn
#68There'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…
"There's some who argue" Let's be clear about who. Who is arguing that people need separate identities for work, family, and friends? Sociologists Who is arguing that having a single identity will make society more open? Mark Zuckerberg. Source: https://boingboing.net/2018/01/22/facebook-is-sad.html
Sociologists and marginalized people.
As a young man I had a few friends and acquaintances who intimated that they had been stalked. My ex wife shared a story of being stalked by a deputy sheriff. And I can’t recall now but she may have been underage at the time to boot.
Pretty quickly I saw a pattern. People who don’t want privacy have never cared about someone who really needed it. Or needed it themselves.
If you think you might be queer, molested, or your neighbor might be in a hate group but you’re not sure, if you think your kid is doing drugs, you can’t just voice these opinions without putting someone in literal mortal peril. And there are a host of other things that might get you stigmatized. If you are in a bizg city that’s not a big deal. Find new people. But if you’re in a small town...
Re: Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn
#69No... Just no! Facebook crawls into every portion of our lives. I killed my account because of its insidious feature creep. You don't put up photos of yourself in a swimsuit at work and would sue any workplace that demanded that you show them those pictures. You shouldn't bring your political beliefs into work, and would be uncomfortable if your boss cornered you and demanded to know how you felt about the president…
Why should I not bring my politics to work? Isn't bringing politics to work what got us the 40 hour work week and the weekend?
Are you serious? Do you want to get work done or argue about guns/abortion/taxes/foreign policy all day?
Re: Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn
#70I read a story recently about a guy who, through sheer happenstance, managed to fix his entire life. He had gotten laid off of his job and was getting desperate. He usually picked up the New York Post and applied to the jobs he saw there. This time they were out of the Post, so he grabbed the Times. He saw an ad for a job fair. He went to the fair. The fair was practically empty, but the employers were desperate, the…
Except in your example, blue collar doesn't appear to use the internet to find jobs or job fairs, even if they have a Facebook account. This reads like a pitch for smart devices for baby boomers. Sure it's a blue ocean, but most retirees don't use smart devices, even though they may have a cell phone.
> most retirees don't use smart devices, even though they may have a cell phone.
Really would love a citation for that. My dad is 74, my step mom is retired in her late 60s, all of their church group of about 35 people — every single one has a tablet or smart phone. That’s anecdotal obviously, but this sample is a mix of retired blue and white collar people at a variety of incomes (and ethnic backgrounds.)
Retired boomers are a huge smart device market from my experience.