In social media you're unknowingly disclosing/sharing intimate details of your life;
Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
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#132Am I the only person that has a healthy relationship with social media? I use Twitter to follow interesting celebrities and industry professionals. (Adam Savage Mythbusters fame, pro climber Alex Honnold, several notable iOS programmers). I rarely interact with any of them, but I find out about lots of interesting things. I use Facebook to keep in touch with friends around the country. I can keep my dad updated to wh…
For myself, social media (Facebook) makes me upset for several reasons. Besides the usual reasons of seeing disturbing news and advertisements, being manipulated by the system, and the creepy feeling of being digitally analyzed for profit, there exists a more serious problem.
I have friends from all over the spectrum, from poor to wealthy, simple to intelligent, young to old. However I find something in almost all of my friend's posts (or reposts) that I highly disagree with (either by fact or opinion), and feel socially compelled not to stand up against their message. I've tried engaging in logical or political conversion with my friends, but it almost always backfires, usually because either a) the conversation is too much for them and they concede, or b) swarms of like-minded bystanders join and dominate via mob-rule. Usually, in neither of these situations does the original poster really consider changing their position.
Topics that I come across that make me cringe could be family who perpetuate crystal healing or conspiracy theories, or co-workers who repost anti-Constitution political rhetoric. How is a moderate Libertarian supposed to survive on social media, ignoring nonsense from their friends and family?
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#133Does publishing YouTube programming videos and career advice count as social media?
Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
#134Am I the only person that has a healthy relationship with social media? I use Twitter to follow interesting celebrities and industry professionals. (Adam Savage Mythbusters fame, pro climber Alex Honnold, several notable iOS programmers). I rarely interact with any of them, but I find out about lots of interesting things. I use Facebook to keep in touch with friends around the country. I can keep my dad updated to wh…
For most people there exists a news headline that will ruin their day or at least disrupt their morning e.g "Young child decapitated at amusement park" or "North Korea moves one step closer to nuking Western US" or "Bacon Gives You Cancer". Facebook heavily encourages people to write and share headlines like this (true or not) and then promotes them prominently in your news feed. This can take a heavy emotional toll…
I feel like we should be doing a better job educating people on what a healthy relationship with the media should look like. If a headline can ruin someone’s day that says to me that the affected person doesn’t understand that media companies profit from outrage. This isn’t even a Facebook problem, it’s an independent thought problem. Don’t let the media tell you what to worry about.
Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm pretty much retired but I was an engineer and then a manager and then a CEO/VP engineering for ~20 years. If you think I'm not going to google you before I offered you a job you are mistaken. Of course I'm going to do that. Think of it this way. One of the questions we asked ourselves about every hire is "would they pass the grocery store test?" Which is: if we saw that person in the store would we go chat with t…
I don't like your grocery store test at all. Before I give reasons, can you elaborate on what things make you "cringe"? Edit: Surprised at the support for grocery store test. If I was hiring and doing the grocery store test, then I would reject everyone who has posted in support of this test as they make me "cringe".
I don't think I have ever once in my life seen someone in the grocery store that I want to have a fun chat with. Excluding potential dates haha.
Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
In some sense, yes. A friend of mine, once got obsessed over the karma he was generating on HN. Every two hours he would check his HN profile, just to see if his karma had increased or not.
What does karma do for you here? I still can't downvote so it seems pointless.
I believe that you need at least 500 karma in order to downvote on HN.
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#137I didn't sign up for Twitter because I thought it would open up professional opportunities for me. Not sure who this is aimed at to be honest.
OP thinks social media is bad for you and doesn't need it for professional reasons so he doesn't use it. So why should I take his advice on what I should or shouldn't do on social media?
His argument boils down to there are more productive uses of your time. Brb, gotta delete Netflix too! Sorry to my family as well, since I need to move to a shack in the woods to be free of distractions for my important work.
If OP is worried about the "seductive" nature of promoting yourself on social media maybe he shouldn't write humblebrag articles to post in NYT.
Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
#138This 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 it require to install a certificate or what is the mechanism for enabling the VPN on iOS?
Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
#139Does HN count as social media? Aren't fora the original social media platforms?
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#140Am I the only person that has a healthy relationship with social media? I use Twitter to follow interesting celebrities and industry professionals. (Adam Savage Mythbusters fame, pro climber Alex Honnold, several notable iOS programmers). I rarely interact with any of them, but I find out about lots of interesting things. I use Facebook to keep in touch with friends around the country. I can keep my dad updated to wh…
For myself, social media (Facebook) makes me upset for several reasons. Besides the usual reasons of seeing disturbing news and advertisements, being manipulated by the system, and the creepy feeling of being digitally analyzed for profit, there exists a more serious problem. I have friends from all over the spectrum, from poor to wealthy, simple to intelligent, young to old. However I find something in almost all of…
I've also thought this exact thing, the reality is (to me at least) everyone processes information and forms opinions differently. The climate of political discourse, in my opinion, has a large majority in a defensive mindset. What people express as an opinion or 'thought' on social media is currently from the same place I believe. We are so used to being 'sold' a message on these platforms, that we forget the real 'purpose'. Which I believe is, social validation from peers. Not to think the same, but to be reinforced that it's okay to have a opinion and that I can recognize as my own, separate from others. Individuality can be chaotic but there's a good side to it...