> You should quit social media because it can hurt your career.
Quitting social media might hurt your social life. FB is how I stay in touch with friends and family. Its how we exchange pictures of our kids.
Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
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Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
#262Am 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…
Regardless, there's very little to gain by having public profiles; and everything to lose. Go anonymous, it worked in the 90s and now it's like we've been spellbound by corporations to go personal.
Running a panopticon (shadow profiles, evercookies, etc.) has become so cheap that you have to start thinking about opsec to keep an anon account from being linked back to you.
Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
#263Earlier quoted context omitted.
Man, so much of what seems defensive pushback, I don't get it. Here's the deal. I ran a small company for almost 2 decades in the valley. Everyone worked with everyone else very closely. One bad apple can screw up the whole company, make everyone miserable. So I used every chunk of info I could get to make sure that a potential hire was gonna be a fit. That's just being prudent. If you are posting on mailing lists ab…
I am a manager. I wouldn't look because I understand that online representations of a person paint an incomplete at best and extremely inaccurate at worst picture of the person, especially as it pertains to their ability to work, and that there isn't any solid empirical data supporting assertions like the ones you're making. Do you actually believe most of what you read on the internet? It's just amazing to me that a…
You manage what? I'd like to know because this just seems like a young person who wants to do well but hasn't been around the block.
Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
#264Earlier quoted context omitted.
> not at all obvious that crack addiction is, socially, any different. I don't know; I'm addicted to reddit right now, and haven't noticed any greater tendencies to risky behaviors or violence.
you're not addicted to reddit, at a molecular level your body doesn't even know what reddit is
I'm aware, but from that perspective I don't know what the parallel to crack cocaine is supposed to be.
Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
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Is there some study showing that your first sentence is correct? The reason I ask is that I never ever see stuff like that in my feed. Is it your friends who share that kind of stuff or is it showing up as ads or? And why are those people encouraged to share stuff such as bacon giving cancer? In my feed I only see the stuff from friends, such as travel photos, various fun experiences, poems and sometimes comments on…
facebook has this “trending” section where they show ~3 trending news headlines with a little blurb under each. It’s usually near the top. On the right sidebar on desktop. And yeah it’s often times very depressing headlines such as those. You don’t get that?
No I don't. I'm typically using Facebook app on android and I never see any news. Logged on to desktop version now and none there as well. Scrolled through about 100 items on my feed and the only thing I see are posts from friends and intermittent ads from companies which are "liked" by my friends.
I'm guessing maybe it's because I'm in/from Sweden and they haven't set up newsfeeds for this place.
I do see how showing negative news to people would have affect on what people post. And maybe it's a cultural thing as well - one of the hot topics in Sweden is immigration but very few people post about it, probably just because it's such a divider and few good things will come out by starting a Facebook discussion.
Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
#266Am 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…
> I can keep my dad updated to what I've been doing without having to call him. I can't. Some algorithm at Facebook has deemed my posts not worthy enough for his feed. If I could keep up with life events on it I would still use it. But I can't. My news feed looks like chain mail from grandma.
I had the same issue and filtered some content and now I have a decent feed.
The thing is, I don't really use the feed, more interesting for me are notifications from groups, the messenger and the instant reconnection potential of FB since near anyone is there.
Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
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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.
Hmm, it used to be that after some amount of karma points, you were able to downvote. Was that feature removed? (I was in the same situation, started to care too much about my karma points (was top 100 at one point), so now whenever my account gets too high, I make up a random password for it (type eyes closed), log out, and create a new one.
Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
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> 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. Companies aren't going to ignore "free information available at your fingertips" about the candidates they hire. For example a problem candidate may have easily accessible "red flags" on their social media such as racist stuff and drug use. They co…
Nobody cares if your SQL is written by nazis as long as nobody knows they're nazis. Nobody cares if your sales guys are alcoholics as long as they bring in busines and don't embarrass the company. By intentionally filtering on irreverent criteria (like the politics and drug habits of back-end devs) you're needlessly shrinking the talent pool. The time the average hire spends with the company is short enough that havi…
> Nobody cares if your SQL is written by nazis as long as nobody knows they're nazis.
If they're posting nazi stuff on Facebook, everybody knows they're nazis.
Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
#269It advice where the answer is "it depends". 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 shari…
> 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.
An agent from the local mid-size-city FBI office spoke at an "information security for regular people" event at my university. He said he had a Facebook profile, but pretty much all the information on it was false.
Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
#270It advice where the answer is "it depends". 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 shari…
I would add one point: Is there a chance you might ever be one of those things, or are friends with or related to one of them? If so, no social media.