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Mr_Whoopass writes "I am the IT Administrator for a regional restaurant chain, and as of late I am noticing more and more people sending me invitations to sites like LinkedIn, FaceBook, etc. Mother always taught me to be a skeptic, and, knowing more than the average Joe about how information can be used in this digital era, I am reticent to say the least about posting such personal details as my full name and where I work on the net for all to see. I have thus far managed to stay completely below the radar, and a search on Google has nothing on my real persona. However, now times are tough, and I see sales dropping in the industry I work in as it is a discretionary spending market to be sure. I wonder if I should loosen up on the paranoia a bit and start networking with some of these folks in case of the all too common layoff scenario that seems to be happening lately. What do other folks here think about this? I am specifically interested in what people who work in IT think (since I know that just about every moron who has 'Vice President' or sits on the 'Executive Team' is already on LinkedIn and has no clue about why they should be trying to protect their identity)."
What's your real name allready?
I don't want to linked into to any club that will have me as a member.
He thinks he's smart, hiding from us, but I googled Whoopass and found 1,180,000 hits.
Oops, dawned on me that's just his surname, so I googled his whole name (Mr. Whoopass) and got 951,000 hits. This link is proof that we have access to much of his personal information, including links to his girlfriend, WhiteTrash. http://people.paltalk.com/people/users/Mr%20WhoopAss/index.wmt
you're welcome..
LinkedIn is great because Kevin Bacon is on it and you can see how many degrees removed from him you are. He has "500+ connections" on LinkedIn. I'm only 3 degrees away myself and I'm not even in the entertainment industry.
What can't you loosen if you don't play? I can see a scenario where you can't lose if you don't play.
For what it's worth, I've never hired a person because of a facebook profile, but I have not hired plenty of people because of facebook profiles.
If you're using facebook as a means to get a job, you're doing it wrong.
He's the guy with the most connections on LinkedIn.
He's the dude who bags flour at Lehi Mills, 30 minutes south of Salt Lake City.
Method of processing duck feet
A lot of the companies I've worked for think of themselves as one big family.
So do many cults...
The Yellow Pages are more invasive. They give your home address and name.
That's assuming you have a name like "Dominos Pizza" or "Allstate Insurance".
For the rest of us with people names, we're generally more concerned about the White Pages.
I'm a big tall mofo.
and the idiot that wrote that terrorists could use coal ash to build nukes.
You've got to have something to draw your plans with...
to get me + wife into the local swingers scene
There, fixed that for you.
But seriously, I usually do this through work mates, when I move to a new area, but my last position the workers were all stuck (not IT people), so I also relied on my facebook contacts.
We don't use IRL, we say AFK.
"As far as networking goes, the more people that are in it, the less each individual is worth."
I think you've just defined a new corollary to Metcalf's Law.
I can explanate how to administrate your network. You must configurate and segmentate it, so it can computate.