Does HN count as social media? Aren't fora the original social media platforms?
HN is social media, but its much more anonymous since its based on usernames.
Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
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#102Earlier 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".
Is it not obvious? It's a visual opinion that is open to interpretation as much as any company that can consider you a fit for their culture. It's not a universal cringe per se, but likely falls into 'outside of social norms' cringe.
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#103Am 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…
Unhappiness from social media for me happens when social media makes me aware of things that make me unhappy. For example, I get a lot of news from Twitter, and sometimes the news makes me unhappy. I have a great diversity of friends and family on Facebook, and sometimes one will post something I find really distasteful. If I was reading a novel instead of Twitter, I wouldn't experience that unhappiness. The thing wi…
I think this is an attention thing.. you notice it in tv and movies as well. Older kids movies are slower paced with less cut scenes. Whereas new movies are faster paced. I think this is due to digital editing capabilities now. Watching these older movies feels boring compared to movies today.
Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
#104What do HN readers use for social media?
I basically only use Reddit, HN, and instagram(which I'm slowly quitting).
Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
#105Am 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…
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 local political events. And of course intermittent flooding of happy birthday messages.
Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
#106Career and social life should be completely and utterly separated. The content on your social media page should have no bearing on your ability to perform the job at hand. Quite honestly, 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. Especially true in the realm of IT, where there just simply ar…
> 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…
That is why I quit LinkedIn
Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
#107Am 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've never been worried about my employer seeing my social media profiles. If I wouldn't do something in public, I wouldn't post it to social media.
Employers (and potential employers, for job applicants) don't use access to social media only to see what you post to social media and judge you by that, they can (and do) use it to see who you are connected to on social media, what they post about you, and what they post about other things, and judge you by that. They can also use it as a pretext to discern things that are protected by anti-discrimination law and which they would not ask you about directly for fear of lawsuits, as a means of difficult-to-detect unlawful discrimination, using, again, not only what you post, but information from others that is connected to your profile.
Now, you can limit your interaction in one of the prime mechanisms of social communication in modern society to mitigate the risks that poses (which itself undermines the point of legal protections, especially for things like religion and, in California, political affiliation), or you can, as many people do, create what essentially amounts to a bogus profile that simulates doing that which is shared with prospective employers, but neither of those are ideal.
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#108On the other hand, there has been an increasing trend of companies adding a red this-is-required star to social media links on applications.
I've been outright rejected for several jobs because I said I have no useful SM presence.
I could understand this for something like band promotion, but for programming and similar jobs, it makes zero sense. I don't post pictures of me online, and even so, I never take photos when I'm out, and I'm not sure why it matters. It's almost like they think I'm hiding dead bodies or prison tats on my face.
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#109Am 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…
What is happening on your Facebook that's making you unhappy? Not me because I haven't been on social media for years but I'm guessing it's comparison. If your friends are posting photos of their holiday in Bali and you only managed a camping trip over the weekend then how is that going to make you feel? Add in the doom and gloom in the news that tells you things have never been so bad and you can see it isn't health…
The problem is that most people in the moment think that they are above this kind of feeling because it's not something you realize. That's why you need long-term studies to determine it. People won't admit to being petty like this, but the sad reality is that most of us are.
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#110> I've never had a social media account.
This is strictly true, but it's not as if Cal Newport doesn't have a web presence. He has a website registered for his name[1] and runs a popular blog called Study Hacks[2].
If you're marketing yourself, you should register your name online. It's one of the simplest and most effective ways to strengthen and, more importantly, control your personal brand[3].
[2]: http://calnewport.com/blog/
[3]: https://www.financialsamurai.com/strengthen-your-brand-by-re...