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Its part of the new trend of faking your facebook information for employers as well.
Yeah what makes this doubly pointless is it takes five minutes to set up a dummy faecebook account with your name and no info or followers. Most of my friends have "real" accounts and then the ones they actually use.
When they dropped the university email requirement any sort of account identity certainty went out the window.
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Originally Posted by Memphis1979
Highly tech savy companies mainly. They see it as your lack of staying up to date with the latest technology if you don't have a facebook account.
This isn't true at all. I know plenty of software devs who don't use it and several who avoid social media outside of work altogether. Most companies have internal systems in place for work discussion anyway.
Email accounts used to be "new" and not required. Now almost every application asks for one, and your resume better have one. Facebook is the new "email"
No not really. email is what everyone uses every day.
FB is Spam and advertising.....and not all high tech jobs consider it a necessary tool. facebook is a brain drain with photos and ads....its social media.
linkedIn.com has more professional info on it, and businesses use it JUST for business.
Your lack of vision on this topic is disturbing. You clearly didn't anticipate that any activity like this could suppress any free speech via social networks.
Oh, there are plenty of all political types using the computer to be political.
An employer has no right to your personal passwords, but they probably do have a right to have a key stroke recorder on their business computers and if they find you are on Facebook or other things at work against company policy, well tough!
Are you serious? Why would an employer not consider an applicant without a FB account? How would they even know if you did or didn't have a FB account? Is it on the application?
yes, how does the employer know if you have an FB account at all? Unless your provide that information willingly.
I know several people who don't have one. And my police officer friend doesn't even use his real name on his account (on the account that he is a police officer and don't want any scumbags he arrest to find him)
Highly tech savy companies mainly. They see it as your lack of staying up to date with the latest technology if you don't have a facebook account.
Unfortunately, I have to disagree. I work in a high tech company and we actually develop applications for facebook. Several of our employees do not have Facebook accounts nor are they required.
And it isn't looked down upon as it IS NOT emerging technology. Social networks are on EXISTING technology and are CERTAINLY not pushing or making any progress technically. They are the RESULTS of technology.
Staying up to date on what? C++ Java PHP and database calls? Programming languages have been around since the 60's and many of what we use in programming have existed for 20 years without much "advancement".
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facebook is a brain drain with photos and ads....its social media.
