Posted on 08/07/2012 6:41:50 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot
.... Things have changed. Now we all need to be able to respond to email immediately. And to tweet. And to instantly share our photos on Facebook. We’re all addicted to technology now, ... to our iPhones, and Facebook, and Twitter, and Android, and Pinterest, and iPads, and Word with Friends, and fill-in-the-blank-with-your-digital-dope-of-choice.
(snip) I am writing with some words of caution. I used to say that “if you’re not on Facebook, it’s possible you don’t actually exist.” I think it’s time to update that, courtesy of Slashdot: Facebook abstainers will be labeled suspicious.
Slashdot flagged a German news story in which an expert noted that mass murderers Anders Breivik and James Holmes both lacked much of a social media presence, leading to the conclusion, in Slashdot’s phrasing, that “not having a Facebook account could be the first sign that you are a mass murderer.”
That’s a tad extreme, but I’m seeing the suggestion more and more often that a missing Facebook account raises red flags. .....
It’s not just love seekers who worry about what the lack of a Facebook account means. Anecdotally, I’ve heard both job seekers and employers wonder aloud about what it means if a job candidate doesn’t have a Facebook account. Does it mean they deactivated it because it was full of red flags? Are they hiding something?
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“You can’t get away from it. It’s everything. It’s everywhere,” she (Katherine Losse, the ex-Facebook employee) told the Washington Post. “The moment we’re in now is about trying to deal with all this technology rather than rejecting it, because obviously we can’t reject it entirely.”
Well, you can, but it might lead to your being rejected down the line too.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
They must have changed. I registered with a totally fictitious name and drop email account. My Farcebook contains no personal info at all (except for the links via “likes”).
No facebook page here.
Never will be.
Nothing to see here.
Move on...
That, with iPhones and Twitter and Pinterest and iPads only proves very many people have very little thought going on between their ears - usually, with few exceptions.
No smart phone either. I guess I’m destined to lurk in the shadows of social media... a faceless drifter on the web.
"400 billion tweets and not one useful bit of data was ever transmitted."
It means the job candidate won't be wasting company resources and time.
6 months? I closed mine after 2 weeks.
Prophetic words. You can add 'tattoos' to that "wish I hadn't" list.
All it means is that I was smart enough to use a fake name ;)
Our Muslim enemies in the ME use non-traceable, non-electronic communications. Smart, and worthy of emulation.
What is Facebook?
>> “if you’re not on Facebook, it’s possible you don’t actually exist.”
Please DO go on thinking that, y’all. I don’t WANT to exist out there in the “cloud”.
I was told this a couple of days ago by someone who knew about the internet, or its precursor, long before Al Gore invented it, and who has known more than one CIA director and SecDef.
Forbes can kiss my butt.
How am I going to survive not being a slave to social media, email and my cell phone?
Yawn, who give a shiite? My cellphone is rarely even on...............
Actually it's a sign that not all people are sheep who follow every silly trend that comes along like Facebook, Twitter, etc.
From what I see from my wife’s excessive activity, a spot where attention whores post endless photos of themselves along with infinite updates on their bowel movements, or something..........NO! Not hers, I rag on her for the idiotic content and time spent with that excrement...
I’m starting a social media site for plumbers, it’s called Assbook, there you’ll be able to recognize your favorite plumber.
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