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> Meanwhile, job seekers can discover openings, auto-fill applications with their Facebook profile information And soon we will need discussion on how a job se
by thisisit 9y ago
> Meanwhile, job seekers can discover openings, auto-fill applications with their Facebook profile information
And soon we will need discussion on how a job seeker is being shunned at a workplace for his/her personal views which came bundled with these auto-fill forms.
I can be wrong but whenever I read stuff like these it seems to me companies, specially social networking, are running out of ideas and just scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas.
- adjkant 9y agoAgreed. Facebook has a ton of engineers sitting around (not designers, engineers). Only so many can data mine and work on advertising, so some portion of them will look around and decide "what if we just add in random feature x from other thing y!" and eventually some get approval. It's really nonsensical from a user perspective. I can't imagine what user would ask for this. And because of the scale of Facebook, there's no penalty for this not working out. So they will just keep pushing random features and will see what sticks. See stories, their AI chatbot assistant in messenger, and I suspect this will suffer the same fate.
- aje403 9y agoHopefully this doesn't stick 2 years from now. "Must apply via our Facebook listing - please have the show all photos checkbox selected" - Granted, that probably won't affect white collar workers as heavily
- Slansitartop 9y agoDo do believe Facebook is on it's way out, but I created a fake real-name profile to guard against a future where it's more ubiquitous and I'm expected to give others access to it.
- Kalium 9y agoI've seen a number of my more blue-collar friends use Facebook as a job site on and off for years. I suspect that to a lot them, this will mostly be a formalization of things they already do.