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Yeah, in the modern world privacy is a luxury. It's actually pretty damn hard to find information about many technology executives outside of their LinkedIn pro

Yeah, in the modern world privacy is a luxury. It's actually pretty damn hard to find information about many technology executives outside of their LinkedIn profile; but many lower-income jobs practically require an active social media presence.

na85 7y ago
Exactly correct. Corporations like Google and Facebook successfully turned privacy into a luxury good available only to the oligarch class. See for example Zuckerberg buying all the mansions around his, to protect his privacy, with the money he made proselytizing "privacy is dead" and selling us out to advertisers.
sixstringtheory 7y ago
I’m interested in which jobs you speak of. Surely nobody cares whether or not you have aFB profile when deciding to hire you as a grocery stocker or cashier...
- close04 7y ago
  > according to a study by CareerBuilder, nearly 70% of employers screen their candidates using social media and what’s more surprising is 57% of employers are less likely to even contact applicants who lack an online presence [0] [0] https://www.lawdepot.com/blog/should-employers-look-at-social-media-when-hiring/ https://www.lawdepot.com/blog/should-employers-look-at-socia...
  - lonelappde 7y ago
    "having an online presence" is a much lower bar than "on social media".
    - close04 7y ago
      Your comment is based on a summary quote, the full text linked in the article makes it perfectly clear: > 57 percent are less likely to interview a candidate they can't find online > 54 percent have decided not to hire a candidate based on their social media profiles > Half of employers check current employees' social media profiles, over a third have reprimanded or fired an employee for inappropriate content > 70 percent of employers use social media to screen candidates, up from 11 percent in 2006 For more than half of the world's population or 80+% of all internet users "an online presence" means precisely "social media". Nothing else comes even close to that. It's also one of the few segments where people use their real identity. Your anonymous HN account will fly under the radar. Let's not bury our heads in the sand, employers will check social media so they don't hire anyone who's publicly offensive or extremist, unprofessional, trashes their employer, even someone posting too much or with poor communication skills, etc. From a link in the article I posted above [0]. [0] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/number-of-employers-using-social-media-to-screen-candidates-at-all-time-high-finds-latest-careerbuilder-study-300474228.html https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/number-of-employers...
buran77 7y ago
I wouldn't say my job is low level (it's on the higher end of the spectrum) and in the past few interviews the recruiters/HR/interviewer/(whatever their exact role in the company may have been) added me on social media to explore my profile before the interview. Actually for my current job they added me right after I won the recruitment, around the time I was starting the job, "validated" my timeline on different platforms, and then quietly removed themselves from my lists. So they did some due diligence but wanted to show this had no bearing on the recruitment process.

na85 7y ago

Exactly correct. Corporations like Google and Facebook successfully turned privacy into a luxury good available only to the oligarch class. See for example Zuckerberg buying all the mansions around his, to protect his privacy, with the money he made proselytizing "privacy is dead" and selling us out to advertisers.

sixstringtheory 7y ago

I’m interested in which jobs you speak of. Surely nobody cares whether or not you have aFB profile when deciding to hire you as a grocery stocker or cashier...

close04 7y ago
> according to a study by CareerBuilder, nearly 70% of employers screen their candidates using social media and what’s more surprising is 57% of employers are less likely to even contact applicants who lack an online presence [0] [0] https://www.lawdepot.com/blog/should-employers-look-at-social-media-when-hiring/ https://www.lawdepot.com/blog/should-employers-look-at-socia...
- lonelappde 7y ago
  "having an online presence" is a much lower bar than "on social media".
  - close04 7y ago
    Your comment is based on a summary quote, the full text linked in the article makes it perfectly clear: > 57 percent are less likely to interview a candidate they can't find online > 54 percent have decided not to hire a candidate based on their social media profiles > Half of employers check current employees' social media profiles, over a third have reprimanded or fired an employee for inappropriate content > 70 percent of employers use social media to screen candidates, up from 11 percent in 2006 For more than half of the world's population or 80+% of all internet users "an online presence" means precisely "social media". Nothing else comes even close to that. It's also one of the few segments where people use their real identity. Your anonymous HN account will fly under the radar. Let's not bury our heads in the sand, employers will check social media so they don't hire anyone who's publicly offensive or extremist, unprofessional, trashes their employer, even someone posting too much or with poor communication skills, etc. From a link in the article I posted above [0]. [0] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/number-of-employers-using-social-media-to-screen-candidates-at-all-time-high-finds-latest-careerbuilder-study-300474228.html https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/number-of-employers...

buran77 7y ago

I wouldn't say my job is low level (it's on the higher end of the spectrum) and in the past few interviews the recruiters/HR/interviewer/(whatever their exact role in the company may have been) added me on social media to explore my profile before the interview. Actually for my current job they added me right after I won the recruitment, around the time I was starting the job, "validated" my timeline on different platforms, and then quietly removed themselves from my lists. So they did some due diligence but wanted to show this had no bearing on the recruitment process.