Posted on 03/20/2012 7:18:33 AM PDT by bjorn14
I don’t have a facebook account. I find it annoying that every jerk out there wants to you to “like” their page.
I’ve had to fill out applications before being offered a job more than once.
FB is predominantly gay. I have an account, with over 400 “friends”. Only ~10 folks, (including a couple members of our ping group) know who I really am. FB is a total farce.
Sell Facebook and Twitter stock, because if you don’t think this is going to have an impact on the market ‘need’ for those businesses, think again.
I would NEVER have a personal facebook account, nor would I have a Twitter account, nor any type of social networking account that new my name and address, or had my profile in it.
Linked-In is another one. The amount of information you can obtain about a company on Linked-In would drive most CIO’s to drink.
Eventually, these idiots will have driven their privacy policies to the point where only morons need apply.
We’ve seen this before, by the way. Anybody remember Disco? Every Friday night, for a while, dance places were packed with people in polyester. Everybody loved it, and the almost as if overnight, Disco sucked.
Eventually, people stopped going to Discos. They turned into multi-cultural sausage-fests: ethnic guys crowded around an empty dancefloor with FAR too few women in the place. Nobody told them Disco was out. They didn’t get the memo.
This is what’s going to happen to Facebook. Only those with nothing to lose will be on there playing Farmville and Mafia Wars and posting pictures of their dogs. People valuing employment security will be texting each other, or (horrors), calling people and talking to them again.
Facebook is going to implode, and its going to suck a bunch of other companies and structures in along with it when it does.
>Vodka does not smell, nice try.
It does if it’s the cheap plastic bottle kind. ;)
>>...lay claim to the mine that is no longer being used and re-open it...
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>Great, wonderful Idea!! Now that you are the owner, are you going hire everybody on their word and resume?
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>Or - are you going to:
>”... want to know A-B-S-O-L-U-T-E-L-Y EVERYTHING about that candidate [that you] can POSSIBLY know.”?
I think this is the classical false dilemma; this isn’t an all or nothing situation. Besides, isn’t it said that discretion is the better part of valor? By not being discrete (and reasonable) with your demands you are turning the interview into a battle, a battle of wills, but a battle nonetheless... and as an employer you can say “I’m not playing anymore!” and take your ball and go home when someone tries to resist your demand.
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