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Re: Why I'd never work for Google, Twitter, or Facebook

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 02, 2011, 1:11 PM UTC

scubaguy wrote: post #71

cletus wrote: post #40

It's strange to have some moral objection to advertising because advertising is, ultimately, a form of discovery, a way of connecting people who want or need something with those that supply it. Ad revenue on the Internet, almost by definition, means someone found something they wanted. How exactly is it bad to connect people with things they want and need? The problem with advertising is when it gets too obtrusive,…

It's one thing to not like advertising in general; I think we all prefer to avoid them. A lot of times, ads are crap. Its another thing to entirely dismiss adverting and the people that are involved in advertisement. It's just down right shitty to be condescending about it. My counter point ( http://blog.fisharefriends.us/2011/08/never-work-for-google-... ) is that good ads are beneficial to businesses and consumers.…

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Re: Why I'd never work for Google, Twitter, or Facebook

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Post by known » Tue, Aug 02, 2011, 2:33 PM UTC

cletus wrote: post #40

It's strange to have some moral objection to advertising because advertising is, ultimately, a form of discovery, a way of connecting people who want or need something with those that supply it. Ad revenue on the Internet, almost by definition, means someone found something they wanted. How exactly is it bad to connect people with things they want and need? The problem with advertising is when it gets too obtrusive,…

Unsolicited advertisement is spam.

Re: Why I'd never work for Google, Twitter, or Facebook

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Post by AlexC04 » Tue, Aug 02, 2011, 2:54 PM UTC

akronim wrote: post #133

AlexC04 wrote: post #41

Every time I click on a title like "Why I'd never work for Google, Twitter, or Facebook" I keep expecting it to be a great big 96 point for page saying "Because they wouldn't fucking hire me" So far, I've only been disappointed by these troll posts.

or in comic form, http://xkcd.com/192/

Oh my god. What's even funnier is like the last panel of that comic, I actually sent cupcakes in with my resume to the local google sattelite office.

I thought it was really clever. I bought a domain "google____.com", wrote a custom resume specifically for google, had the cupcakes delivered with the name of the website written on top (on a tiny printed chocolate coin so as to be legible)

On the day they arrived, I had about 50 hits from mountain view california, a bunch from atlanta (roughly the number that worked in this sattelite office) (screen http://i.imgur.com/ucsXO.jpg)

Then nothing but silence. I thought it was the cleverest little trick ever. Apparently XKCD had thought of it first.