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U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says

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Post by seandhi »

clocksp33d wrote: post #630
seandhi wrote: post #618

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It’s mostly passive, to be honest. About 20-30 recruiters reach out daily, so I typically tell them that I’m only willing to work remote contracts (if I’m not looking for something full time) with a bill rate of $125 / hour or more. It only takes one out of a hundred to come back with an opportunity that brings in 20-25k per month for six plus months that I can do in addition to my day job to make the effort well wor…

out of curiosity, what work do you do remotely?

Nowadays, mostly Elixir, Ruby, and React development.

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Post by AdrianB1 »

rootusrootus wrote: post #260
AdrianB1 wrote: post #94

I lost too many "friends" on Facebook: I knew these people for many years, but I was shocked what they posted - from stupid to incredible things, mostly politics and mostly far left. I started cutting all these people and I was left with less than 20 when I closed my account.

I am kinda curious, what far left things you hear on Facebook? I can't remember every meeting anybody of that political ideology in the US, it would be such a taboo. The most liberal person I can think of is basically a centrist, almost everyone else I've met is center-right.

I am in Europe, not in US. For example, we have a center-right party that wants to abolish private property. Far enough? For me, yes.

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Post by rahulchhabra07 »

giarc wrote: post #589
peteretep wrote: post #334

By far the biggest factor that had me stopping checking Facebook, and indeed LinkedIn, is number of utterly fictitious notifications they generate. There was a time a few years back when that red dot made me drop everything to check FB, but these days it’ll be some completely bullshit message they’ve made a notification out of. Feels like they got greedy for my attention and killed the golden goose there. I check it…

Try having a business page on Facebook! Anytime you log in, they will create some new notification that you know is not true. "5 people have viewed X business, try posting again." Or "1 new person liked X business" then you check and the number of likes is the same. Which is pretty easy to check when the number of likes is in the 2-3 digit range.

Are you sure these are false? I am really skeptical of that.

Could this be mixed w people unliking and hence the number doesn't change?

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Post by thatoneuser »

seandhi wrote: post #618
thatoneuser wrote: post #608

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Personally it's never seemed like a valuable resource in that regard to me. How do you go about this and how much success do you see?

It’s mostly passive, to be honest. About 20-30 recruiters reach out daily, so I typically tell them that I’m only willing to work remote contracts (if I’m not looking for something full time) with a bill rate of $125 / hour or more. It only takes one out of a hundred to come back with an opportunity that brings in 20-25k per month for six plus months that I can do in addition to my day job to make the effort well wor…

Thanks a lot for the tip. Guess I'll have to try it that way and see.
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