Re:The new way to land a job at Facebook
by darklajid on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @06:37AM
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I don't want to divert this discussion too far here and obviously you're somewhat ~biased~ by default as an FB engineer, but take this from an engineer that doesn't particularly like FB:
* Friendship for me is something offline, mostly. I don't believe that 'remote friends' make a lot of sense. That's a digital version of pen pals (email?) or collecting trophies from trips around the world. Socializing doesn't happen online for me, 'friends' that I cannot see offline will most probably not make it with me into the future. Facebook is a way to drag those people along that in my world just wouldn't have made it anymore.
* You totally ignored the biggest complaint in this discussion: Sharing stuff with a company that has a less than stellar reputation for respecting privacy. I'd argue that the bad reputation among engineers mostly stems from this issue, not from a weird kind of 'maintaining friends is a waste of time' idea.
That said, I _do_ use FB right now (living in IL, parents and family in DE) to connect with family and I have to admit that this works to some degree. I'd have preferred to do that more privately (diaspora? blogs?), but convenience and ease of use have won here.
* Friendship for me is something offline, mostly. I don't believe that 'remote friends' make a lot of sense. That's a digital version of pen pals (email?) or collecting trophies from trips around the world. Socializing doesn't happen online for me, 'friends' that I cannot see offline will most probably not make it with me into the future. Facebook is a way to drag those people along that in my world just wouldn't have made it anymore.
* You totally ignored the biggest complaint in this discussion: Sharing stuff with a company that has a less than stellar reputation for respecting privacy. I'd argue that the bad reputation among engineers mostly stems from this issue, not from a weird kind of 'maintaining friends is a waste of time' idea.
That said, I _do_ use FB right now (living in IL, parents and family in DE) to connect with family and I have to admit that this works to some degree. I'd have preferred to do that more privately (diaspora? blogs?), but convenience and ease of use have won here.