Re:I deleted my social media accounts
by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK on Monday January 13, 2025 @02:03AM
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I was applying for a job once and recruiter told me I need to have at least 100 Facebook friends to be hired. Played Mafia for a couple of days and got 400 "friends". Was hired and HR presented me at the company meeting as a social media star)
If I'd been talking to that recruiter I would have politely declined to continue the interview process. Unless the job itself was directly related to interacting with people on Facebook, the number of Facebook "friends" you have has nothing to do with your ability to do the job.
This sounds made up.
I’m not saying it is, just that it’s so bizarre, it’s literally unbelievable.
Like something The Onion would write.
Re:I deleted my social media accounts
by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK on Monday January 13, 2025 @02:27AM
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That's true and happened in 2011. Social media was AI of the day.
Fine with me. They're acquaintances. Nobody has 200+ "friends", we have a handful of them. Is it nice to know that someone I hung out with a handful of times twenty years ago but otherwise don't really know and haven't said a word to in a decade made a big life change? Sure, I guess, but for the most part it has absolutely no bearing or impact on my day-to-day life nor the lives of those most important to me, and that's where I'm putting my energy.