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You meet $g at a caffeinated yogurt startup tasting party. You want to form an intimate relationship with person $g. $g looks you up on SureEros.com and finds

by diydsp 13y ago

You meet $g at a caffeinated yogurt startup tasting party. You want to form an intimate relationship with person $g. $g looks you up on SureEros.com and finds a bogus profile for you claiming you actually don't like milk products or stimulants. $g figures you lied to get into $g's pants and you look like a lamer. Race or religion $x takes over a large portion of the local government. You belong to race or religion $y. All of your friends tell facebook you're a $y and their clever algorithm confirms it based on your last name, which you actually only acquired when your father remarried into your stepmother's caffeinated yogurt family enterprise. Local, infiltrated gov't decides to launch a pogrom against $x. They come and get you. You apply for a job at $q. All of your friends have been telling linkedin you're good at $r. You have no profile at linkedin. You show up at the interview. They say, "Well you have lots of $r experience, but we consider that wasted time, you probably picked up bad habits doing $r. We want someone who's spend more time on $q than $r and who doesn't lie about fermented dairy and alkaloids." How do I come up with these scenarios? What is my formula? It's based on an article I once read by a Canadian politician who described the right to privacy as simply the right to not be known before someone actually meets you, to have no false representations before you. (And then I added details about yogurt and caffeine b/c that's what I'm consuming this morning and afternoon.)

VMG 13y ago
You present a compelling case for having profiles on major social network platforms, with you controlling the shared information. I also don't know why I should desire to work at company $q which is has a completely incompetent hiring department. And governments are pretty good at progroms and determining ethnicities without using social media platforms - they've done this literally since dawn of time. If you add this scenario, you'll need to add the increased sharing of information about the government that is happening through facebook and the fact that governments are banning access to social media whenever they are up to something shady. > the right to privacy as simply the right to not be known before someone actually meets you Then you need to ban gossip as well.
- greyfade 13y ago
  > I also don't know why I should desire to work at company $q which is has a completely incompetent hiring department. Then you should not try getting a job at all, since many companies have similarly incompetent HR departments, which gather background information on you that you might not otherwise wish for them to use when weighing your application.
  - VMG 13y ago
    I've never seen a company I've wished to work for that cared about my Facebook profile. Companies that care about their employee's choice of fermented milk will go not be a good place to work at, regardless of Facebook. And they will have serious competitive disadvantages.
- damncabbage 13y ago
  > I also don't know why I should desire to work at company $q which is has a completely incompetent hiring department. The pendulum is swung our way right now. Put yourself in the position of someone going for a job in a market that's tight and competitive. (Like trying to rent a place in Sydney or NYC, they can discard you and there'll be plenty of people left lining up to take your place.)
- scotttobejoking 13y ago
  >>Then you need to ban gossip as well. That's precisely the thing - effective society does ban gossip. Sure, it doesn't get rid of it 100%, but it recognizes it as a harmful thing and stigmatizes it. It does not meekly accept that because some gossip exists and cannot be eradicated, all should be free to gossip however much they like.
- dredmorbius 13y ago
  If all companies are $q and the undesirable skill you have happens to be, oh, say, your skin color, ancestry, religion, or sexual preferences, things rather go out the window for you.

by diydsp 13y ago

VMG 13y ago

You present a compelling case for having profiles on major social network platforms, with you controlling the shared information. I also don't know why I should desire to work at company $q which is has a completely incompetent hiring department. And governments are pretty good at progroms and determining ethnicities without using social media platforms - they've done this literally since dawn of time. If you add this scenario, you'll need to add the increased sharing of information about the government that is happening through facebook and the fact that governments are banning access to social media whenever they are up to something shady. > the right to privacy as simply the right to not be known before someone actually meets you Then you need to ban gossip as well.

greyfade 13y ago
> I also don't know why I should desire to work at company $q which is has a completely incompetent hiring department. Then you should not try getting a job at all, since many companies have similarly incompetent HR departments, which gather background information on you that you might not otherwise wish for them to use when weighing your application.
- VMG 13y ago
  I've never seen a company I've wished to work for that cared about my Facebook profile. Companies that care about their employee's choice of fermented milk will go not be a good place to work at, regardless of Facebook. And they will have serious competitive disadvantages.
damncabbage 13y ago
> I also don't know why I should desire to work at company $q which is has a completely incompetent hiring department. The pendulum is swung our way right now. Put yourself in the position of someone going for a job in a market that's tight and competitive. (Like trying to rent a place in Sydney or NYC, they can discard you and there'll be plenty of people left lining up to take your place.)
scotttobejoking 13y ago
>>Then you need to ban gossip as well. That's precisely the thing - effective society does ban gossip. Sure, it doesn't get rid of it 100%, but it recognizes it as a harmful thing and stigmatizes it. It does not meekly accept that because some gossip exists and cannot be eradicated, all should be free to gossip however much they like.
dredmorbius 13y ago
If all companies are $q and the undesirable skill you have happens to be, oh, say, your skin color, ancestry, religion, or sexual preferences, things rather go out the window for you.