Subj : Re: Notice that...
To   : boraxman
From : Arelor
Date : Sat Feb 19 2022 20:15:37

  Re: Re: Notice that...
  By: boraxman to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Feb 20 2022 12:32 pm

 > I have heard this too, that no social media presense is looked on as a
 > negative.  I can see private companies scoring people now, and that score be
 > used to evaluate people.  Social Credit systems are soon to come here, and i
 > will be privzte enterprise, not the state, bringing it in.  I have no social
 > media presence now, but I would rather not work for a company which saw that
 > a negative.  A luxury I can afford now, but later may prove to be very
 > limiting.
 > 

I think about the same thing. If an employer decides not to employ me because
he cannot find out about my hobbies online, I am better off not working for
such employer.

I can see a future in which a candidate includes a link to his private software
repository, full of cool projects, and gets rejected anyway because he has no
Facebook account, with nobody checking the actual code that person writes.

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