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My current job went so far as to browse the TLD for my email address for clues to any seditious or non-conforming behaviors.
This is self-promotional, but also highly relevant! A few moths ago after reading Cal Newport's book "Deep Work", I decided to try to improve my social media usage by writing an app that could block HN/Twitter/Google News (the big 3 digital distractions for me) by default, and force me to go to an extra step to temporarily unblock them when I wanted to use them. It seems like a small thing, but that extra friction of…
Does the app snooze notifications, but also keep messages/notifications unread?
Is HN "social media"?
This is self-promotional, but also highly relevant! A few moths ago after reading Cal Newport's book "Deep Work", I decided to try to improve my social media usage by writing an app that could block HN/Twitter/Google News (the big 3 digital distractions for me) by default, and force me to go to an extra step to temporarily unblock them when I wanted to use them. It seems like a small thing, but that extra friction of…
Social media is entirely unecessary unless you consider Indeed social media or work in a social media role.
This is self-promotional, but also highly relevant! A few moths ago after reading Cal Newport's book "Deep Work", I decided to try to improve my social media usage by writing an app that could block HN/Twitter/Google News (the big 3 digital distractions for me) by default, and force me to go to an extra step to temporarily unblock them when I wanted to use them. It seems like a small thing, but that extra friction of…
This is self-promotional, but also highly relevant! A few moths ago after reading Cal Newport's book "Deep Work", I decided to try to improve my social media usage by writing an app that could block HN/Twitter/Google News (the big 3 digital distractions for me) by default, and force me to go to an extra step to temporarily unblock them when I wanted to use them. It seems like a small thing, but that extra friction of…
Are you a police officer? Trial attorney? Inspector General? You almost certainly should not be on social media, or exclusively posting baby pictures and acting within defined guidelines from your employer.
Are you a teacher? librarian? social services worker? union steward? public sector employee not covered by collective bargaining? You should be very cautious about sharing your views/experience on gun control, abortion, Trump, binge drinking, drugs, etc.
Are you a salesdude, politician, business owner, etc? If your personal schtick part of your branding efforts professionally? You should be on social media, focused on whatever you do.
Otherwise, Facebook, Twitter or whatever is what you make of it. If you do dumb things, there may be consequences. Most of the time it's the equivalent of amusing yourself with friends in a semi-public place, except your buddy Zuck is always silently listening.
I live in the PNW and am in the tech industry. I haven't had a need for social media in any job application I've filled out, and not a single interview or recruiter mentioned anything about social media. Social media is entirely unecessary unless you consider Indeed social media or work in a social media role.
You live in a region where the demand for tech workers outstrips the supply. Of course no one is ruling you out based on what your social media says about you. Employers can't afford to.
If you work in an industry where an employer knows there'll be 50 equally qualified candidates available at the drop of a hat then they can afford to filter people out of their candidate pool; checking someone's social media reputation is precisely the sort of filter they use.
Note that there are huge numbers of programmes aimed at getting more kids in to coding. This will be standard practise for narrowing down the pool of developers in a decade or so.
Quite honestly, an employer that even looks at your social media profile to do a sort of casual "character check" on you, is not one that you should want to work for in the first place.
Especially true in the realm of IT, where there just simply aren't enough solid, responsible people to fill the need.
This article presents a nice thought, but on principle, I'm just gonna keep doing my thing outside of work (documenting what I want on social media), and crushing it AT work. My career should be growing based on job performance, not that one time I accidentally got too drunk at a bar.