Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It
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Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It
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#2Already quit Facebook, but this article just convinced me to quit LinkedIn too.
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#3Extremes should always be evaluated carefully. Social media's place in the CS field has two main reasons for me.
1) To show how the mind works and to showcase it on a CV. 2) To be available to this thing called the 'internet' which is basically a giant global party where the only information that we can find out about one and another is either through what others say about us or what we say about ourselves. If I purpose a crazy solution to a problem you will most likely want to verify who I am to see if my idea has any credence.
The article is right that it is a distraction but for CS minds to come together and share ideas it is almost a necessity to help drive innovation.
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#4There is also another aspect. In theory your personal life and work are separated. Your religion or political opinions should not matter at work.
But many people (sadly even on HN) think it is ok to fire people, based on their opinions.
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#6Already quit Facebook, but this article just convinced me to quit LinkedIn too.
I just got the best gig of my life through LinkedIn. But I was abroad so not really able to physically network as such.
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#7I get dependent already on computer games (not a bad thing for Nethack and the Dark Souls series of course). It might be easy for me to get dependent, so I avoid drugs and other dependency causing things religiously -- like social networks.
But I am now a heavy FB user despite that, as an expatriate it helps a lot with keeping the fluency of my native tongue. The ease with keeping in contact is also really good for me, quite a bit away. I just wish there were fewer cat pictures.
The relevance for work and career is zero, of course. But the personal value is high.
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#8This reads more like adjusting how you use social media than quitting it altogether. The overly sensationalist headline probably obscures what the actual point of the article is.
If you're trying to turn social media into your career - say, being a journalist but only tweeting about things - then, no, that's probably not going to work. This seems to be what the article is railing against.
If however, you're using social media to help your work elsewhere find a wider audience, and then providing added nuggets of value on social media, then that's valuable.
The era of someone producing one piece of work that defines them for the rest of their career is now probably over. Theres an expectation now that you're continually engaged.
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#9Only in * (fear of Godwin point reference) society do you fear to have opinions.
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#10Quit the NY Times. Your election may depend on it.