I wouldn't expect a younger person to have a personal website, given that it's almost impossible to come up with a domain name that's not taken. For instance, my real name is also Mark Christian. What am I going to do, register markchristian1.org? theothermarkchristian.org? Might as well not have a website at that point.
Have a personal web site
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh, I wasn't looking them up--the candidate told me that they looked me up.
Oh I see, that's a fair point. Perhaps in your case it makes sense to have some presence when you know that people may you look you up. Although, I would still argue that should not be reason enough - unless that it is, you actually want to have a personal website and enjoy writing. In my case, I often feel like my opinions are so asinine and generally not worth sharing that I just don't feel the urge to set them in…
Except that, you just did. :)
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#53I wouldn't expect a younger person to have a personal website, given that it's almost impossible to come up with a domain name that's not taken. For instance, my real name is also Mark Christian. What am I going to do, register markchristian1.org? theothermarkchristian.org? Might as well not have a website at that point.
No it isn't. There were like 100000 new tlds added. Basically any name you can think of is available on one of the tlds. Also most personal websites don't use the authors name as the domain name. Most dev blogs I have seen have some strange name but have their real name in the text of the website so it will show up when searched.
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#54Over a decade ago, I had a website. But it seems to me that Facebook killed that urge. As people are now moving off of Facebook, it does make sense for personal websites to return. But people will return with a new perspective.
I’ve done the same, and made one via github about a year or two ago. But it is very different than my older sites. I feel like I have less room to express personal thoughts or design ideas. Everything is more scripted, sanitized, and is trying to sell me to employers.
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#55“I like to look people up before an interview to try to get to know them a bit. You were a complete ghost online.” Why is this a bad thing?
It makes one an easy target for negative campaigning. If you have no "real" web pages showing your real self, the first hit will be someone else talking trash about you. Or worse, pretending to be you. A vast and positive online presence is an insurance.
I am a ghost online, and nobody is talk-trashing me.
If someone tells me I am a ghost online, I'll smile and says "correct!!". And if the person is interested, I can explain why.
Questions are opportunities for meaningful conversation.
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#56I wouldn't expect a younger person to have a personal website, given that it's almost impossible to come up with a domain name that's not taken. For instance, my real name is also Mark Christian. What am I going to do, register markchristian1.org? theothermarkchristian.org? Might as well not have a website at that point.
As long as you sign your name to blogposts you’d be fine on a domain such as yeehaw.baby
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#57I actually started startablog.com to help people with this. We'll actually set up someone's wordpress site for free. We've done several hundred and we're hoping to help 10,000 people make the move.
People keep moving to privatized networks and there's nothing that beats owning [yourname].com
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#59People are going to look for your name so you can influence the results that come up through a personal website.
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#60IMHO, a personal website that is super out of date looks worse than one that doesn't exist. My website is a good example of this (being out of date). So I recently removed it from my resume.