I once had a potential employer tell me that they can’t trust me because I have no social media presence.
Sounds like you dodged a bullet
Oh, absolutely. His next question was going to be what my passwords were.
In that case, I would have stopped the interview and excused myself. Wouldn’t have been the first time.
I wouldn’t have even excused myself at that point, I would have just:
And then left.
Is that Maddox?
TIL, thanks
It spawned a whole bunch of memes. What a dumb ass.
Fuck, I forgot all about Maddox lol
Thanks to that, I know an employer I can’t trust.
even better i dont have social media
What do you call lemmy/mastodon then?
Autistic media
Antisocial media?
Asocial media.
The best distiction i’ve heard is that social media follows people (twitter, youtube, mastodon, etc… whereas lemmy, reddit, etc… follow topics. They’re more like news feeds with a comment section.
that would make sense if there wasnt a number of lemmy communities dedicated to documenting drama from other lemmy communities and users, not to mention blood feuds between different domains
Lemmy reporting on lemmy is just regular old news i’m pretty sure. Would an online newspaper with a comment section count as social media then? How about paper newspapers with an active “comments from readers” section?
If you just wanted to follow a topic, you could follow Wikipedia RSS feeds.
If you’re reading and responding to comments, you’re engaging in social media.
I’d say they are more of a comment section that just so happens to include feeds 🤪
Ive always differentiated lemmy/reddit from social media for 2 main reasons. First because it isnt (or wasnt) full of “influencers” trying to push shit on you. Second and probably more so, becausee its anonymous. I dont know anyone one here personally and no one knows me. These platforms are more like collections of the internet with a comment section, imo. Not much different than things like The Chive or even a news site, but instead of news, its memes and sometimes news
The structured user information is what I think killed the “free” vibe of the early internet: you naturally see a lot of information even before you contact anyone. That removes some intimacy of exchanging information about who you are, in a way you want. Around 2000, I was playing pool with random people on Yahoo Games, and trying to learn English talking to them. I’ve met a girl of my age from Jakarta, I talked to some boomer Arizona cowboy who was relieved to know “we’re not fucking commies anymore” (I`m Russian). These were interesting conversations where we discovered each other. Now I wouldn’t talk to the guy like that, because “I see we probably don’t have much in common, and he wrote this and that to other people”
“Social media” is as much “social” as that “dating apps” are “dating”
So…very?
don’t forget memes about the news
And, unfortunately more and more frequently, news about the memes.
By which I mean that politics has become a farce where memes are often taken more seriously than things like science and thoroughly researched journalism 😮💨
They don’t count it as social if it’s pseudonymous.
Even thought, that’s not what social means.No more social media than 4chan
I don’t
Antisocial media. (I.e. perpetual bickering.)
Thats me. I have 2 “social media” accounts, Lemmy and YT (coz I need the tutorials). My yt account is an old ex-boyfriend account that I stole from him a good 10 years ago lol
Heck ya, tutorials and hobby tear downs and builds. Also a good smattering of science education.
I love that
Real
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Mine are up but the details apply to about 2010-2013 era activities. Definitely no longer a priority 🙃
FR FR
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In case there is any confusion,
fr = For Real
In case there is any confusion
Vrum = Vrum?
Who up posting they shit
If I had the energy I would comb through your account and profile you to prove you wrong. Even with the shittiest shitpost with as little sense as possible you are still putting part of yourself out there. Pair that up with comments and other posts and one can find out more about you than you want.
U either have to unemployed, paid enough money or have aloooot of free time to understand my diarrhea of an account
Half of what I post is bullshit and I’m not telling you which half. Is this comment included? You’ll never know for sure.
According to my online presence I’m a 58 year old overweight lesbian developer from Nebraska.
I could also be a 22 year old white supremacist rancher from Montana.
Or I could be a fat balding Iranian guy running a motel out of Southern California.
whelp…guess that’s all I’ve got.
