> Downvoted and rightly so. I don't care about the internet points, but I'd like to point out, account created ~30m ago, that you're using HN the wrong way. Do

> Downvoted and rightly so. I don't care about the internet points, but I'd like to point out, account created ~30m ago, that you're using HN the wrong way. Downvoting is not a "I disagree" button like on Reddit, it's a "this is not interesting to discuss" button, the fact that you're replying at all shows that it's not the latter. > Do you think purchasing a few newspapers from[...] No it's certainly not the same, but it is interesting to think about how established precedence for the discretion of advertisers, given their limited money resources and the fact that they have to pick some audience will be applied to social media. > How many accounts do I need: one white, one black, one > hispanic, one 20 - 30, one 30 - 40?? where does it end? How many newspaper subscriptions do you need? What do those cost? I'm just pointing out that there's always been a pay-to-play element to job seeking. In some sense what FB is enabling is shitty, but on the other hand the fee to play has never been lower. > It's unethical developers like you that allows this > kind of thing to happen. I have zero relation to Facebook, and for what it's worth I wish it didn't exist, but if it didn't the next FB clone would just replace it.