So the solution is to become an "online hermit" rather than disallow companies from gaining access to information which is not relevant to the hiring process?
I posted a couple "tracks" there, some audio captures of PC fan noises for fans that were misbehaving. Soon after, I started receiving "likes" from various "accounts". Then I started receiving SPAM PMs in soundcloud.
When a company starts padding their data, you know they're going down.
I agree the term "friend" is VERY loosely used on Facebook, to the extent it lost any sort of meaningful value, however "social media" includes any online community. Forums, discussion boards, hell even Slashdot fits the bill.
That's where statistical analysis might help. Is company X only hiring young people, despite applicants coming from all age categories? Is company only hiring non-smokers? Is company only hiring this and that type of people? Are rejected applicants sharing some social media parameters that might lead to the suspicion that company X is screening them using this method?
My Facebook account is private, has no picture and is mainly used for me to look at pictures of family members who are living abroad. That doesn't mean Facebook is NOT for finding other people or letting other people find someone. The fact you or me aren't using it or are using it for limited, specific interaction doesn't change the role of social media as a whole.
That's one aspect. Another one is that if you want to meet people from around the world, with similar interests as you have, social media is the fastest, cheapest and most efficient method to do so.
Third reason to use social media is to find very small businesses or individuals who offer various services. For example, the only way to contact some private individuals who make high quality vaping coils is Facebook. They have a facebook page and nothing else. Sure, after first contact you get their phone number but until then, you gotta use whet's available.
But we're not talking about Facebook alone, we're talking about social media as a whole, that includes online forums, communities, etc.
It's not about legal versus illegal. When a business hires me, they hire my expertise and business behavior. They don't own the whole lot of me. Here's an example: I'm a metalhead. Let's assume I publicly post on Facebook a picture of my face looking angry at the camera, with my hair loose, partially covering my face and a black background. Nothing else. Let's say this is my profile picture. Then this picture of me in a specific posture (say, an imitation of whichever metal singer I like) is being looked at by my company XYZ prospective boss, who's a Michael Bolton fan who despises metalheads. He's going to reject my application for absolutely no business reason. Of course, nobody's going to even hint to the true reason, they'll say "your skills are not exactly what we need" or whatever bullshit they have to say to make the rejection look legal.
This expands to vegans rejecting meat eaters, non-smokers rejecting smokers, abstinents rejecting drinkers, leftists rejecting rightists, this type of sexual minority rejecting that type of sexual minority and everything in between.
If any of us go ahead and browse our colleagues' public social media information, we're bound to find numerous images, posts, videos which we dislike, and mutter "I wouldn't have hired this person". The difference being that while you don't have that power, others do, and shit can roll both ways. Today you're on one end of the stick, tomorrow you can be on the other.
"Don't post publicly", you say? Social media is all about making connections. Maybe you want to find people who think alike, and you want them to find you too. Posting publicly "I like this black metal band" doesn't make you a satanist... unless your overly-religious prospective manager thinks so and rejects your application because it doesn't fit his winged angels wet dream.
Personally I've experienced the worst manners from many Europeans
You do realize "Europeans" means nothing, right? Since you seem to want to look like a seasoned traveler. Various European nations (and populations within them) are very different from each other.
Clearly, you've never traveled much or been outside your own community.
While you seem to have done that, I doubt you have learned much.
"People are having fewer children" No, they're not. Not globally, for sure.
Yeah, Japan, Western Europe, the US of A - also some Eastern European countries fit the profile of "diminishing population". So what? that's more than compensated by Africa, most of Asia, maybe South America (too lazy to look at the data). World's population is booming despite the reduction in western civilization countries.
Want to stop population reduction? Carefully select and allow immigrants in, without yelling "omg they gonna steal our jobs". There, population problem solved.
"50 shades of grey" disagrees with you. The world is choke full of horrible works of art created for the sole purpose of bringing income. They might not fit with your personal definition of art, but they are art by definition: "the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination" - something that indeed induces emotional experience, but doesn't necessarily require emotion to be created.
Most art is not based on personal emotional experience. Most art exists because it makes money. Sure, you might not call it "art" but most people do call it art regardless.
I looked at the image shown in TFA (https://d1o50x50snmhul.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/29152753/aipainter.jpg). The top three images make sense and I particularly like #1 and #3. The bottom ones are crap.
During the last few years I bought a lot of games from the period when I had no two coins to rub against each other. Back then, i pirated games a lot. Then, when I had disposable income, I bought them and haven't played them, simply because I had lost interest. Still, I think I owed developers something, so there it goes.
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry I am not discussing the anonymous coward behind it, but the statement itself...
"They just show up to post random nonsense and exhibit absurd biases" - that's exactly how I perceive the GP.
Well ain't that a self-confirming statement...
Who let the pots roll down the stairs?
I don't get junk mail. Not since mailman's scars became permanent.
If they send me a PM on SoundCloud, yeah, that's the spreading vector.
So the solution is to become an "online hermit" rather than disallow companies from gaining access to information which is not relevant to the hiring process?
How likely is for that to happen, generally?
Maybe...
But when a different person likes your track every 10 days like clockwork... too much of a coincidence.
Just look at the dates.
http://imgur.com/Q9cvnAC
And look at the "people" who liked my track:
https://soundcloud.com/daphneg...
https://soundcloud.com/nicolem...
Same person in profile photos, just different image.
All those users have a very similar amount of "following" (a bit over 1000) and no other activity except for following and likes.
They're bots, all right.
I posted a couple "tracks" there, some audio captures of PC fan noises for fans that were misbehaving.
Soon after, I started receiving "likes" from various "accounts".
Then I started receiving SPAM PMs in soundcloud.
When a company starts padding their data, you know they're going down.
I agree the term "friend" is VERY loosely used on Facebook, to the extent it lost any sort of meaningful value, however "social media" includes any online community. Forums, discussion boards, hell even Slashdot fits the bill.
That's where statistical analysis might help.
Is company X only hiring young people, despite applicants coming from all age categories?
Is company only hiring non-smokers?
Is company only hiring this and that type of people?
Are rejected applicants sharing some social media parameters that might lead to the suspicion that company X is screening them using this method?
et caetera.
My Facebook account is private, has no picture and is mainly used for me to look at pictures of family members who are living abroad.
That doesn't mean Facebook is NOT for finding other people or letting other people find someone.
The fact you or me aren't using it or are using it for limited, specific interaction doesn't change the role of social media as a whole.
That's one aspect.
Another one is that if you want to meet people from around the world, with similar interests as you have, social media is the fastest, cheapest and most efficient method to do so.
Third reason to use social media is to find very small businesses or individuals who offer various services. For example, the only way to contact some private individuals who make high quality vaping coils is Facebook. They have a facebook page and nothing else. Sure, after first contact you get their phone number but until then, you gotta use whet's available.
But we're not talking about Facebook alone, we're talking about social media as a whole, that includes online forums, communities, etc.
For starters, you only need to do that for the person who DID get hired.
Also, you only need to bust the employer once to start a legal investigation.
It's not about legal versus illegal.
When a business hires me, they hire my expertise and business behavior. They don't own the whole lot of me.
Here's an example: I'm a metalhead. Let's assume I publicly post on Facebook a picture of my face looking angry at the camera, with my hair loose, partially covering my face and a black background. Nothing else. Let's say this is my profile picture.
Then this picture of me in a specific posture (say, an imitation of whichever metal singer I like) is being looked at by my company XYZ prospective boss, who's a Michael Bolton fan who despises metalheads. He's going to reject my application for absolutely no business reason. Of course, nobody's going to even hint to the true reason, they'll say "your skills are not exactly what we need" or whatever bullshit they have to say to make the rejection look legal.
This expands to vegans rejecting meat eaters, non-smokers rejecting smokers, abstinents rejecting drinkers, leftists rejecting rightists, this type of sexual minority rejecting that type of sexual minority and everything in between.
If any of us go ahead and browse our colleagues' public social media information, we're bound to find numerous images, posts, videos which we dislike, and mutter "I wouldn't have hired this person". The difference being that while you don't have that power, others do, and shit can roll both ways. Today you're on one end of the stick, tomorrow you can be on the other.
"Don't post publicly", you say? Social media is all about making connections. Maybe you want to find people who think alike, and you want them to find you too. Posting publicly "I like this black metal band" doesn't make you a satanist... unless your overly-religious prospective manager thinks so and rejects your application because it doesn't fit his winged angels wet dream.
Maybe on the Kindle.
On a PC monitor it makes your eyes bleed after 5 minutes.
I found Ariel to be a shitty detergent.
The car's fantastic, especially the Nomad, I wish I owned one.
And I don't care about the princess.
I never said one word about USA, and incidentally, I am well aware of the huge differences between states.
Personally I've experienced the worst manners from many Europeans
You do realize "Europeans" means nothing, right? Since you seem to want to look like a seasoned traveler.
Various European nations (and populations within them) are very different from each other.
Clearly, you've never traveled much or been outside your own community.
While you seem to have done that, I doubt you have learned much.
"People are having fewer children"
No, they're not. Not globally, for sure.
Yeah, Japan, Western Europe, the US of A - also some Eastern European countries fit the profile of "diminishing population". So what? that's more than compensated by Africa, most of Asia, maybe South America (too lazy to look at the data). World's population is booming despite the reduction in western civilization countries.
Want to stop population reduction? Carefully select and allow immigrants in, without yelling "omg they gonna steal our jobs". There, population problem solved.
And it didn't help at the time either :)
So THAT is where my momma went.
"50 shades of grey" disagrees with you.
The world is choke full of horrible works of art created for the sole purpose of bringing income. They might not fit with your personal definition of art, but they are art by definition: "the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination" - something that indeed induces emotional experience, but doesn't necessarily require emotion to be created.
Most art is not based on personal emotional experience. Most art exists because it makes money.
Sure, you might not call it "art" but most people do call it art regardless.
I looked at the image shown in TFA (https://d1o50x50snmhul.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/29152753/aipainter.jpg). The top three images make sense and I particularly like #1 and #3. The bottom ones are crap.
During the last few years I bought a lot of games from the period when I had no two coins to rub against each other. Back then, i pirated games a lot. Then, when I had disposable income, I bought them and haven't played them, simply because I had lost interest. Still, I think I owed developers something, so there it goes.
We should donate TitCoin, CannabisCoin, PotCoin and the like. BTC is too mainstream.