Re:Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs
by gleenn on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @08:10PM
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I think people immediately cringe commingling their work and social lives. Personally I think it's a huge over-reach that Meta requires their employees use their personal account as their work one too, but maybe that's not true anymore?
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Re:Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs
by 1letterunixname on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @08:39PM
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There was recently a big memo about that. I have completely separate work and personal devices. (This was written on a personal device.)
The only thing that goes in from personal -> work is music or random home office photos.
The only things that go out from work -> personal are public résumé-level performance reviews, tax, and benefits information.
Exceptions on work devices include Github and streaming services, but otherwise not much else should be co-mingled. Everything else stays in its own domain.
(I don't use personal social media accounts so I'm the wrong target audience. Personal FB and Insta accounts are linked to work, and Github if you have one.)
Re:Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs
by gleenn on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @02:36AM
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Are the accounts tied together though? Facebook still knows behind the scenes those are related accounts and that bothers me.
Re:Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs
by loeg on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @10:52AM
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They don't have to be anymore (as of fairly recently).
Re:Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs
by brendank310 on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @02:26PM
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I'm always a little shocked when I see someone who isn't keeping personal and work devices (and accounts) very intentionally separate.
Re:Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs
by chihuahua on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @08:29PM
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As far as I can recall, I did not use my personal FB account while working at Meta last year. Some tiny detail of it may have been imported somewhere, but I definitely had a totally different account for Workplace.
Re:Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs
by 1letterunixname on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @08:40PM
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Contingent workers, that's possible.
FTEs generally require an FB account to start the tech device provisioning process.
Re:Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs
by akawry on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @09:35PM
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i don't think that's true anymore after project meiosis
Re:Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs
by loeg on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @10:51AM
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They used to require linking a "personal" FB account as your employee account but recently (as in, like, 2021 or later) have a system that no longer requires this (including FTEs). Note that you could always create a throwaway personal FB account to be your employee account (and this is what I did).