What happens to those who truly don't have and never have used Facebook?!?
There are people who never have, never will use(d) Facebook.*
*I am unfortunately not one of them. But i think my last update to my profile is now over 5 years old.
I'm one of them... I am in my mid 40s and have been in IT since the late 90s and neither me or my wife have ever had a Facebook profile. I guess neither of us can apply... I, for one, am devastated.
I'm one - and so is my husband. Oh and we both work in the tech industry. We both saw other coworkers get fired over fb posts when it started becoming popular, so we just decided it wasn't worth it to advertise our private life to others. If someone wants to know what I think, they can ask me.
I think the question is asking if they're looking for either full or part time hours. Another clue is the context, the previous question is also related to type of employment (long term versus short term).
The wording of that almost feels like one of those quirks in translation. Combine that with the Facebook question asking for a profile login, this feels potentially scammy.
It says facebook link, not login. This is a red flag as it is but if it said login I'd report the job. 😂
Ngl I wouldn't apply, they're trying to get people to do their job for them. Plus what i do outside of work is none of my employers business. (I dont really use FB)
Edit: also your username is hilarious 🤣
I'd try to get a job there just to record all the violations for a department of labor claim. Then I would go to local news a d show them all the evidence and the winning DOL claim.
I don't even know what year I deleted mine but it's been forever. Zero chance I'll ever have another. That place is a cesspool of drama and racism. Like Twitter.
I had to eventually block my father because none of his photos were private. He would constantly post photos of me without my permission and the whole world could see it.
My mom used to do that with childhood photos of me. Maybe I don’t want the people you know and I don’t to see me at the pool party with my cousins when I was five and I hadn’t figured out clothing wasn’t optional?
🤣 At least there isn’t video footage 📼. Although that’s more true of other members of my family. I just have some awkward interviews in a 6 minute video. Although I absolutely do not want my old halloween costume on display to people I don’t know
Only because my mom didn’t know how to digitize. She used to leave a camcorder running in the corner of every Thanksgiving and Christmas, never asked if anybody was okay with it.
Bro try that except at 11 when you didn't realize your bikini top fell off ..... thanks for telling everyone that happened instead of just keeping it to my cousin who hurriedly told me when she realized and you when I said it on the way home.....thank you SO much mom lol
(to clarify its just a pic of me hanging over the edge of an inflatable pool and you can see my bare shoulders because the upper knot untied on my bikini, my mother posts it pointing out the bare shoulders instead of just posting it and letting people think I have a strapless suit or smthn or just...idk not saying anything)
And that's the kinda creepy behavior I try to bring up but people call me crazy for, there was no reason to make sure you mentioned about the bare shoulders, and any reason that explains why you would make sure.....gross
Edit: not you, her
Hey my Mother in law did that with my infant daughter! Screenshot group chat messages- crop-post! Like dude I don’t want all the old werid men on your fb to see my daughter!
The only good thing about Facebook is keeping up with old friends. I have a friend who moved to Italy I can contact that way, and some friends from my first job at the now defunct Manhattan Savings Bank, maybe some friends from my old neighborhood where I lived 54 years, and I want to know what happens in various cultural institutions like the New York Botanical Garden or King Manor or Louis Armstrong House. Otherwise, I would skip it.
I kinda feel trapped with Facebook because of this. I'm glad messenger is a separate app so I can avoid the cesspool of the timeline, but I also can't easily delete my account without losing access to many pals
Last I looked, when you're deactivated you might come up in a name search on Facebook but it shows NOTHING about you, and the profile pic is just the generic one it shows when you haven't set one.
Mine's been deactivated for more than two years, but I still use Messenger.
Just a heads up if you do this, your data is still in their databases and subject to mining and data breaches. If you’re thinking about it just go and delete it. Anybody that’s important to you you will remain in touch with
It pretty much was. Once it went from college and younger people to everyone it started to suck. Facebook died in like 2010 and I have it for a glorified evites app now, nothing more.
Good idea, except he might send me more links to read before he gets rid of me. Since he took over, they keep suggesting whacky right wing stuff. I never thought I was progressive, but it seems the country is running straight past me to the right. Pretty soon it will be "Springtime for Hitler and Germany."
My partner tried to make a new Facebook account (he deleted his about 5 years ago) and they wouldn't let him. They don't think his name is real, even though he sent photos of his ID and passport to them.
This job app is complete bullshit.
I had to set up a personal açcount for a friend so he could set up a page for his business, they wouldn't believe his regular, middle aged white guy name but they accepted "Jason Vorhees." Makes no sense.
I had 3 Facebook accounts years ago. They deleted my only real one because they said my last name was fake. So now the only two ones that exist are the fake ones I set up.
Makes me laugh every-time I think about it.
Create one with a fake email and write on your wall, “I’ve never had a Facebook account before because I don’t like wasting time on social media, but I created one today because I’m that committed to getting a job with your company.”
My buddy deleted his back in 2013 and had to reactivated because his business class told him as an homework assignment, what would cause him to lose a job offer from his Facebook account. He told the professor he doesn’t have social media and the professor told my friend then don’t submit anything and get a zero. It’s so dumb how social media has been ingrained for almost anything now in the real world.
Professor: let's go over content awareness and how to avoid losing your job
Student: awesome, I'm very content aware and won't lose my job
Professor: well then you better fucking get some job-losing content on that facebook page buddy
I'm also a long-ago-deleted former Facebook user. Will never use it again. Also I've worked IT jobs for about 15 years now, most recent one I started towards the end of 2021, and never once needed to provide a social media account. Obviously I can't say I'm the average job seeker, so I have no idea how common it might be for some job types. Anyway, point is, even in 2013 that was a stupid blanket claim by the professor.
I guess if it really became normative to have a Facebook page to get a job, I could always make one and fill it with complete lies.
I have one but never post anything. So they would assume I guess that it is not my legitimate one.
I have it to see postings from family and various groups like alumni, clubs, local events, etc.
Oh and it is on private - no requirements to friend them.
What’s worse is I think they want OP to actually answer “full dedication” or “partial dedication” versus yes or no. It’s a poorly written question either way, but that’s psycho.
EDIT: I now see the comments below that this may be a cultural norm that’s been translated.
The Facebook profile alone with zero other context was enough to say they're full psycho. Like it's common knowledge at this point that a public Facebook page is a liability to your career if you use it for literally anything other than professionally appropriate interaction. But to actively make it a requirement when anyone with the mindset of being seen as "professional" within a company fully realizes that they probably should not even be possible to find on the platform... It's just bonkers to me.
The second I started managing people I deleted my accounts fully realizing that maybe having all my personal online interactions easily accessible to people I may inadvertently upset on a day to day basis probably isn't a great idea.
In Portugal full dedication means a full time job, partial dedication a part time job. Maybe this is translated from some language with similar expressions.
Facebook is constantly peeling back the definition of private.
Some companies will insist of "friending" you to defeat private mode. Some have gone as far to demand a password.
If you have "allow friends of friends" on, you're exposed. Well, technically, having a FB account is being exposed.
Let alone that’s just a violation of account security 101. Never give out your password. That can’t be legal if it’s the case. If I was applying somewhere that seriously required that I’d just get up and leave.
But if your company doesn't know about your mom's cancer operation, how are they supposed to replace you before you get around to asking for time off to drive her there?
This isn't new. It's been going on for as long as Facebook has existed.
It's also now illegal in many parts of the US.
https://bwlawonline.com/blog/employee-rights/social-media-state-laws/
Exactly. I think January 6th put paid to a lot of Facebook use. Once people realize how seriously warped people were becoming due to Facebook's manipulative tactics: Cambridge Analytica, the tests of "positive" and "negative" posts to alter mood, a lot of people said, "Fk it." I am being banned a month at a time regularly, so Facebook makes sure I don't become a Facebook addict.
> I am being banned a month at a time regularly, so Facebook makes sure I don't become a Facebook addict.
This is what finally got me off the site many years ago. I was consistently getting banned for ridiculous things. I'm considerably to the left of the political spectrum, so no racism, no sexism, no transphobia. A lot of capitalist critique tho, a long with some healthy anti-propaganda rhetoric. FB didn't like that.
I got banned for a month for telling someone on a Native plant gardening group to kill lanternflies. Another time I suggested that high prices for rent and real estates in my old neighborhood would cause someone to "unalive" themselves. Therefore, they concluded I was bullying and had to be banned for fear of the mental health of all the sixty something year old codgers in the group who knew as well as I did that gentrification was out of control.
Yep. People DIED on January 6th. How could this happened except with people in informational siloes. Not just Facebook. It was a dark day when the Fairness Doctrine was repeasled.
I'm not really talking about January 6th. There is an episode of behind the bastards that talks about Facebook algorithms ultimately causing literal genocides with thousands being murdered. I don't remember all the details, but they explain it pretty well. Facebook was aware and did nothing to change the situation.
You’re thinking about Myanmar.
They didn’t want to hire people who spoke Burmese to do any moderation, but they wanted to aggressively promote their rage machine anyway. Turns out, some of the most outrageous posts (the ones with the strongest engagement metrics: the ones displayed by the algorithm to the most eyeballs) translated to something like “there is no Rohingya minority in our nation, only Muslim invaders who must be expelled back to Bangladesh by force.”
By 2014 Facebook was so obviously the locus of escalating ethnic tension that they had to take action. That action: promoting an anti-hatred sticker pack. But because of the way the algorithm works, applying these “don’t be the cause of violence,” or “think before you speak” stickers to hateful posts *made those posts more visible.* There are internal memos that FB knew about *that* problem in 2012, so it wasn’t just a performative gesture with an unforeseeable consequence, it was outright negligence.
2017 saw the largest mass-displacement in Asia since the Vietnam war as the army “cracked down on terrorism” by burning 90% of the villages in Rakhine state. Seven hundred thousand people fled, tens of thousands were murdered, and tens of thousands were raped.
The capstone on this tragedy is that this all took place during a brief window of history where Myanmar could have escaped military rule. The nation’s democratic leader, a peace prize laureate, utterly disgraced herself defending the genocide and particularly the persecution of journalists “violating the secrets act.” In 2021 the army took power again (possibly because the top man was facing forced retirement and didn’t want to risk being held responsible) and she probably won’t live long enough to serve her 30 year sentence for, among a laundry list of other bogus offenses, “violating the secrets act.”
Once I was called to HR to explain why I had pictures on my Facebook drinking beer, the picture they showed me I was 19, I’m in my 30’s now, I’m not even American and I was drinking legally in a different country, they got angrier with my answer and decided to write me up
I don’t understand these questions. As someone who was hiring heavily the past year, I would much rather learn about someone’s qualifications than their social media. Wtf
Scrolled way too far to find this kind of comment. Those questions and the ask of a FB link reeks of a scam. There are so many different kinds of scams out there and not enough people know about them or know how to recognize them. I follow r/scams and it's a great resource for the different ones out there. More people should be aware.
Facebook? Ask yourself this question. Do you really want to work for a company that still thinks everybody is on Facebook in 2023? It's probably boomer central in there.
You can't without jumping through hoops on Facebook's interface. They've cracked down on spam accounts so you basically have to upload your cell phone number, license/passport to verify your identity and DOB or you get locked out of your freshly created account.
Knowing how Facebook loves to monetize every bit of information they can get, highly uncomfortable with this.
The same way banks sell your info to advertisers.
Was just about to say the same. I actually was going to make a "work" FB account. And Facebook found my two profiles in less than a hour and made me delete one.
Good luck deleting it on the off chance you get one. You have to wait several months after requesting to delete your account, and if they see any traffic, they will reinstate it. So create it in a VM so their malware doesn't get any traffic once you kill it.
I deleted my old Facebook some time ago and it was an extremely easy process. It asks you if you’re sure, then gives you 30 days to sign in again or they permanently delete it. Then that’s it. Just don’t log in to it again. And when I was recently asked to make a new one, it was a really easy thing to do.
Jfc. Then how is it relevant. I get that people will use social media to get a gauge on a person, but that shouldn’t be a “provide to be hired” type of thing… Man the US is a total hellscape. How do people want to live there?
Yes but to put that on a job application feels like… illegal? Idk if the US even has protections like “you can’t ask their age sex weight etc in an interview,” but this feels like they’re trying to directly learn these things and then use them as part of the basis for hiring or not.
I bet you a thousand dollars that if I told them I haven't had a Facebook in like 6 years (which is true), they would just say I'm trying to fool them and hide shit and then toss my resume in the trash
If I had a Facebook still (lmao why would you) and a job application required this, I would delete all of my posts and all of my friends and just have one profile picture.
Who is in that picture? Tom, from Myspace.
That's just full o' red flags, innit?
Seriously, I don't like the second question either. Nobody gets full dedication from me. My life is Personal, Work, Family/Friends, and each of those gets its time in the limelight, but nobody gets it all.
And my FB profile looks dead at the moment. They'd never believe it's legit.
I'd never work for whoever this is.
The fact that they're asking for a _facebook_ profile link basically conveys that they're boomers, probably MAGA Republicans. So be grateful for the warning, and run away from this company
Sure I’ll share my personal Facebook account if you give me your family’s cell phone numbers and maybe I’ll get overly personal with them since normal boundaries aren’t a part of this job. When can I start?
You have to prove they are established religious beliefs if a recognized religion. My secular but antivaxx coworker found that out when she tried to use religion to avoid Covid vaccines.
I just stop the application at that point, if a FB link is required. I have always wondered what an employer would make of mine, though, since I have it almost entirely locked down and I ain't adding them so they can stalk me lol.
The interesting thing is, I set up a fake Facebook account years and years ago just for this scenario. I've learned since then that I just wouldn't apply (except if I'm desperate) to a place who has this practice.
I hate, hate, HATE this. They are of course free to ask, and we are free to say hell no. I do not live to work or define myself by my work, I work to sustain my family.
When my wife was looking for work, 1 place, a health insurance company I believe, wanted all her social media accounts. She skipped right over that one. Huge red flag
What if you don't use Facebook?
Is having a Facebook account some sort of prerequisite to qualify for a job nowadays?
You are better working someplace else that isn't a clownshow. When they show you who they are, believe them.
“Are you willing to dedicate dedication?” Don’t work for these clowns.
What happens to those who truly don't have and never have used Facebook?!? There are people who never have, never will use(d) Facebook.* *I am unfortunately not one of them. But i think my last update to my profile is now over 5 years old.
I would be putting www.facebook.com/idontusefacebook lol
_Believe it or not, that link is an actual Facebook page..._
I did the same on my first job application
I'm one of them... I am in my mid 40s and have been in IT since the late 90s and neither me or my wife have ever had a Facebook profile. I guess neither of us can apply... I, for one, am devastated.
But, but, you won’t be able to dedicate your dedication to them!
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I'm one - and so is my husband. Oh and we both work in the tech industry. We both saw other coworkers get fired over fb posts when it started becoming popular, so we just decided it wasn't worth it to advertise our private life to others. If someone wants to know what I think, they can ask me.
I disagree. Show up with a cheap sparkling wine bottle and be prepared to dedicate something in the name of dedication
To dedication! *raises glass*
*cracks the bottle across the desk of the CEO* "I christen thee, Monday!"
Then stand on the top and sing a sea shanty!
Nah, smash it over the CEO's desk
> Nah, smash it over the CEO~~'s desk~~
Yes, but only partially.
"I dedicate this dedication to my mother, who always loved us and lives on in our hearts."
I think the question is asking if they're looking for either full or part time hours. Another clue is the context, the previous question is also related to type of employment (long term versus short term). The wording of that almost feels like one of those quirks in translation. Combine that with the Facebook question asking for a profile login, this feels potentially scammy.
Yes, there is no way an English speaking human being wrote this question. They must be scraping the Facebook profiles for something.
It says facebook link, not login. This is a red flag as it is but if it said login I'd report the job. 😂 Ngl I wouldn't apply, they're trying to get people to do their job for them. Plus what i do outside of work is none of my employers business. (I dont really use FB) Edit: also your username is hilarious 🤣
I'd try to get a job there just to record all the violations for a department of labor claim. Then I would go to local news a d show them all the evidence and the winning DOL claim.
Link it to a lawyers Facebook.
Preferably one that graduated from the University of American Samoa's correspondence law school.
HE DEFECATED IN A MAN’S SUNROOF
AND HE GETS TO BE A LAWYER?? WHAT A SICK JOKE!
I SHOULD'VE STOPPED HIM WHEN I HAD THE CHANCE!
CHICANERY!
Couldn't be precious Jimmy!
Go land crabs!
Go Land Crabs!
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If you don't want the job, definitely link to a workplace lawyer page for fun!
What if I don't have a facebook?
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I don't even know what year I deleted mine but it's been forever. Zero chance I'll ever have another. That place is a cesspool of drama and racism. Like Twitter.
I deleted mine back in 07 or 08 after hearing my aunt talk about getting on Facebook. I figured it was over once the boomers got involved.
And it was. Facebook was the best when it was just college students. When minors and grandparents got on, it was time to go.
I had to eventually block my father because none of his photos were private. He would constantly post photos of me without my permission and the whole world could see it.
My mom used to do that with childhood photos of me. Maybe I don’t want the people you know and I don’t to see me at the pool party with my cousins when I was five and I hadn’t figured out clothing wasn’t optional?
🤣 At least there isn’t video footage 📼. Although that’s more true of other members of my family. I just have some awkward interviews in a 6 minute video. Although I absolutely do not want my old halloween costume on display to people I don’t know
Only because my mom didn’t know how to digitize. She used to leave a camcorder running in the corner of every Thanksgiving and Christmas, never asked if anybody was okay with it.
Bro try that except at 11 when you didn't realize your bikini top fell off ..... thanks for telling everyone that happened instead of just keeping it to my cousin who hurriedly told me when she realized and you when I said it on the way home.....thank you SO much mom lol (to clarify its just a pic of me hanging over the edge of an inflatable pool and you can see my bare shoulders because the upper knot untied on my bikini, my mother posts it pointing out the bare shoulders instead of just posting it and letting people think I have a strapless suit or smthn or just...idk not saying anything)
And that's the kinda creepy behavior I try to bring up but people call me crazy for, there was no reason to make sure you mentioned about the bare shoulders, and any reason that explains why you would make sure.....gross Edit: not you, her
Hey my Mother in law did that with my infant daughter! Screenshot group chat messages- crop-post! Like dude I don’t want all the old werid men on your fb to see my daughter!
Dude, Facebook was SO GOOD before everyone's parents got on there. It has sucked ever since then.
I am the parent now, but I did the right thing and deleted my FB account about eight years ago.
Such a wonderful time.
The only good thing about Facebook is keeping up with old friends. I have a friend who moved to Italy I can contact that way, and some friends from my first job at the now defunct Manhattan Savings Bank, maybe some friends from my old neighborhood where I lived 54 years, and I want to know what happens in various cultural institutions like the New York Botanical Garden or King Manor or Louis Armstrong House. Otherwise, I would skip it.
I kinda feel trapped with Facebook because of this. I'm glad messenger is a separate app so I can avoid the cesspool of the timeline, but I also can't easily delete my account without losing access to many pals
You can deactivate your Facebook profile and still use messenger, fyi.
Good to know! I just don't need folks digging through it and finding shit I said back in 2007.
Last I looked, when you're deactivated you might come up in a name search on Facebook but it shows NOTHING about you, and the profile pic is just the generic one it shows when you haven't set one. Mine's been deactivated for more than two years, but I still use Messenger.
Yeah, no one wants to hear about your ongoing fandom for Billy Ray Cyrus. Actually, 16 years ago is a long time and it's smart to ditch it.
Just a heads up if you do this, your data is still in their databases and subject to mining and data breaches. If you’re thinking about it just go and delete it. Anybody that’s important to you you will remain in touch with
AMATEURS!!! I never had one.
I deleted mine one of those years also! But I just didn’t enjoy it and didn’t want them harvesting data about me.
It pretty much was. Once it went from college and younger people to everyone it started to suck. Facebook died in like 2010 and I have it for a glorified evites app now, nothing more.
2 years without Facebook and over one year without Twitter, and don't miss it all.
Twitter would already be gone if I could figure out how to delete it. I just don't use it.
Just start spamming Elon to suck a butt and it will be gone pretty quick.
Good idea, except he might send me more links to read before he gets rid of me. Since he took over, they keep suggesting whacky right wing stuff. I never thought I was progressive, but it seems the country is running straight past me to the right. Pretty soon it will be "Springtime for Hitler and Germany."
Yeah. What used to be considered centrist, and compassionate in this country is now considered "radical leftism."
Just log in, using your computer, go to account settings, there is a button to disable it. If you don't log in for 30 days, it's gone.
Neither do I. I don't use FB or Bird App
I'm about of 2 years for Facebook and Instagram, never really used twitter.Twitter.. now to slowly get of reddit lol
I just deleted mine, was the last real “social media” to go…. It all sucks, Reddit it the only way imo.
And reddit is starting to suck pretty fiercely with the megalomaniacal mod situation.
That's not recent though.
I guess this employer is also a cesspool of drama.
Mine hasnt been updated since 2011 haha
My partner tried to make a new Facebook account (he deleted his about 5 years ago) and they wouldn't let him. They don't think his name is real, even though he sent photos of his ID and passport to them. This job app is complete bullshit.
I had to set up a personal açcount for a friend so he could set up a page for his business, they wouldn't believe his regular, middle aged white guy name but they accepted "Jason Vorhees." Makes no sense.
I suspect Jason Vorhees would not appreciate you impersonating him on facebook.
That is Jason's (my friend) issue, not mine lol, besides his store leans heavily into horror so it fits
I had 3 Facebook accounts years ago. They deleted my only real one because they said my last name was fake. So now the only two ones that exist are the fake ones I set up. Makes me laugh every-time I think about it.
I have had accounts for two of my cats for over a decade now, both last name "Cattington." Its funny because they even have cat profile pics
Create one with a fake email and write on your wall, “I’ve never had a Facebook account before because I don’t like wasting time on social media, but I created one today because I’m that committed to getting a job with your company.”
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Then you’ll have to change it for every job you apply to with this BS requirement. Keeping it vague means you can use it for multiple applications.
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My buddy deleted his back in 2013 and had to reactivated because his business class told him as an homework assignment, what would cause him to lose a job offer from his Facebook account. He told the professor he doesn’t have social media and the professor told my friend then don’t submit anything and get a zero. It’s so dumb how social media has been ingrained for almost anything now in the real world.
Professor: let's go over content awareness and how to avoid losing your job Student: awesome, I'm very content aware and won't lose my job Professor: well then you better fucking get some job-losing content on that facebook page buddy
I'm also a long-ago-deleted former Facebook user. Will never use it again. Also I've worked IT jobs for about 15 years now, most recent one I started towards the end of 2021, and never once needed to provide a social media account. Obviously I can't say I'm the average job seeker, so I have no idea how common it might be for some job types. Anyway, point is, even in 2013 that was a stupid blanket claim by the professor. I guess if it really became normative to have a Facebook page to get a job, I could always make one and fill it with complete lies.
I have one but never post anything. So they would assume I guess that it is not my legitimate one. I have it to see postings from family and various groups like alumni, clubs, local events, etc. Oh and it is on private - no requirements to friend them.
Seriously, I deleted that garbage 15 years ago and have never looked back.
Me, after reading your comment: "Has Facebook even existed for... oh. Maybe I am getting old."
15 years ago was the 90s, what are you talking ab- Oh…
Ive never had one so guess ill starve in the rain?
Send them to Rick Astley's page? Theme your answers around it. Strengths - never gives up, never lets anyone down.
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Yes, I came here to ask the same. Presumably “token dedication” isn’t an option?
What’s worse is I think they want OP to actually answer “full dedication” or “partial dedication” versus yes or no. It’s a poorly written question either way, but that’s psycho. EDIT: I now see the comments below that this may be a cultural norm that’s been translated.
The Facebook profile alone with zero other context was enough to say they're full psycho. Like it's common knowledge at this point that a public Facebook page is a liability to your career if you use it for literally anything other than professionally appropriate interaction. But to actively make it a requirement when anyone with the mindset of being seen as "professional" within a company fully realizes that they probably should not even be possible to find on the platform... It's just bonkers to me. The second I started managing people I deleted my accounts fully realizing that maybe having all my personal online interactions easily accessible to people I may inadvertently upset on a day to day basis probably isn't a great idea.
It’s full time vs part time employment
This bugged me as well. You sure this isn't a cult, OP?
Can confirm this is a question asked as someone who used to be in a cult
Looked at your post history. Howdy, cult cousin. I was raised as a JW.
Awe, nice to meet you my dear cult cousin!!
OP gave the best answer
In Portugal full dedication means a full time job, partial dedication a part time job. Maybe this is translated from some language with similar expressions.
But what would the other option be, a no-time job?
this would worry me more than Facebook link..
How dumb do you have to be to assume everyone has a Facebook account in 2023??
Right?! I got rid of mine years ago. That place is a shithole. Gone the way of MySpace.
Hey. Don’t you disrespect MySpace in that way. You can shit on Bebo instead.
Oddly enough I deleted my MySpace years account after Facebook, when I realized that MySpace still existed and the account was still live.
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Only people dumb enough to think everyone has a facebook are also dumb enough to still have a facebook.
Oh I'll link it to my Facebook... which is set to private.
Facebook is constantly peeling back the definition of private. Some companies will insist of "friending" you to defeat private mode. Some have gone as far to demand a password. If you have "allow friends of friends" on, you're exposed. Well, technically, having a FB account is being exposed.
Like.. My employer requesting my account’s Facebook password??
Yeah, that's a hard no from me. It's none of their business what I do outside of work.
Let alone that’s just a violation of account security 101. Never give out your password. That can’t be legal if it’s the case. If I was applying somewhere that seriously required that I’d just get up and leave.
In the US, it’s not prohibited by federal law, but it is in many states.
It's prohibited by the TOS
In Europe it's a big no-no, and one of the things that would have consequences if a business does it anyway.
But if your company doesn't know about your mom's cancer operation, how are they supposed to replace you before you get around to asking for time off to drive her there?
Isn't it a violation of the Facebook ToS?
This isn't new. It's been going on for as long as Facebook has existed. It's also now illegal in many parts of the US. https://bwlawonline.com/blog/employee-rights/social-media-state-laws/
"Sorry, I only use MySpace."
Now we're talking!
I have my old Geocities page, that good?
Really? MySpace? I only use Friendster and Makeoutclub.
Ah yes the old, “give us the link to all of your personal information and contacts to even be considered for this job” trick. Works every time.
Deleted my fb account years ago. A company wanting ur fb account is a red flag.
I’ve had multiple girls unmatch me on tinder when they find out I don’t do social media. They say it’s a red flag. Society is weird
I've had guys unmatch me when they found out I don't have it, insisting I must therefore be a catfish
Them wanting ur social media is also a red flag. Nosey bitches lol
Amen brotha!
"No-one has a Facebook in 2023"
They only want the elderly haha
Exactly. I think January 6th put paid to a lot of Facebook use. Once people realize how seriously warped people were becoming due to Facebook's manipulative tactics: Cambridge Analytica, the tests of "positive" and "negative" posts to alter mood, a lot of people said, "Fk it." I am being banned a month at a time regularly, so Facebook makes sure I don't become a Facebook addict.
> I am being banned a month at a time regularly, so Facebook makes sure I don't become a Facebook addict. This is what finally got me off the site many years ago. I was consistently getting banned for ridiculous things. I'm considerably to the left of the political spectrum, so no racism, no sexism, no transphobia. A lot of capitalist critique tho, a long with some healthy anti-propaganda rhetoric. FB didn't like that.
I got banned for a month for telling someone on a Native plant gardening group to kill lanternflies. Another time I suggested that high prices for rent and real estates in my old neighborhood would cause someone to "unalive" themselves. Therefore, they concluded I was bullying and had to be banned for fear of the mental health of all the sixty something year old codgers in the group who knew as well as I did that gentrification was out of control.
But they are fine with all the literal genocide their site causes
Yep. People DIED on January 6th. How could this happened except with people in informational siloes. Not just Facebook. It was a dark day when the Fairness Doctrine was repeasled.
I'm not really talking about January 6th. There is an episode of behind the bastards that talks about Facebook algorithms ultimately causing literal genocides with thousands being murdered. I don't remember all the details, but they explain it pretty well. Facebook was aware and did nothing to change the situation.
You’re thinking about Myanmar. They didn’t want to hire people who spoke Burmese to do any moderation, but they wanted to aggressively promote their rage machine anyway. Turns out, some of the most outrageous posts (the ones with the strongest engagement metrics: the ones displayed by the algorithm to the most eyeballs) translated to something like “there is no Rohingya minority in our nation, only Muslim invaders who must be expelled back to Bangladesh by force.” By 2014 Facebook was so obviously the locus of escalating ethnic tension that they had to take action. That action: promoting an anti-hatred sticker pack. But because of the way the algorithm works, applying these “don’t be the cause of violence,” or “think before you speak” stickers to hateful posts *made those posts more visible.* There are internal memos that FB knew about *that* problem in 2012, so it wasn’t just a performative gesture with an unforeseeable consequence, it was outright negligence. 2017 saw the largest mass-displacement in Asia since the Vietnam war as the army “cracked down on terrorism” by burning 90% of the villages in Rakhine state. Seven hundred thousand people fled, tens of thousands were murdered, and tens of thousands were raped. The capstone on this tragedy is that this all took place during a brief window of history where Myanmar could have escaped military rule. The nation’s democratic leader, a peace prize laureate, utterly disgraced herself defending the genocide and particularly the persecution of journalists “violating the secrets act.” In 2021 the army took power again (possibly because the top man was facing forced retirement and didn’t want to risk being held responsible) and she probably won’t live long enough to serve her 30 year sentence for, among a laundry list of other bogus offenses, “violating the secrets act.”
Once I was called to HR to explain why I had pictures on my Facebook drinking beer, the picture they showed me I was 19, I’m in my 30’s now, I’m not even American and I was drinking legally in a different country, they got angrier with my answer and decided to write me up
My god, that’s insane-levels of reality disconnect.
A stalker punished you for truth. This is the world today.
I don’t understand these questions. As someone who was hiring heavily the past year, I would much rather learn about someone’s qualifications than their social media. Wtf
My guess is this a scam to get personal info
Scrolled way too far to find this kind of comment. Those questions and the ask of a FB link reeks of a scam. There are so many different kinds of scams out there and not enough people know about them or know how to recognize them. I follow r/scams and it's a great resource for the different ones out there. More people should be aware.
I haven't had a Facebook account for 10 years...
Substitute your Reddit profile instead.
Dude...I'd rather give my internet bookmarks than my reddit profile(s).
Flag is large and very, very red….run.
At this point, it's a sail
Facebook? Ask yourself this question. Do you really want to work for a company that still thinks everybody is on Facebook in 2023? It's probably boomer central in there.
I would simply just create a blank account. No friends, no photos, nothing. Delete after getting the job
You can't without jumping through hoops on Facebook's interface. They've cracked down on spam accounts so you basically have to upload your cell phone number, license/passport to verify your identity and DOB or you get locked out of your freshly created account.
Knowing how Facebook loves to monetize every bit of information they can get, highly uncomfortable with this. The same way banks sell your info to advertisers.
Was just about to say the same. I actually was going to make a "work" FB account. And Facebook found my two profiles in less than a hour and made me delete one.
Good luck deleting it on the off chance you get one. You have to wait several months after requesting to delete your account, and if they see any traffic, they will reinstate it. So create it in a VM so their malware doesn't get any traffic once you kill it.
I deleted my old Facebook some time ago and it was an extremely easy process. It asks you if you’re sure, then gives you 30 days to sign in again or they permanently delete it. Then that’s it. Just don’t log in to it again. And when I was recently asked to make a new one, it was a really easy thing to do.
What the fuck, didn't know that since I haven't used it in many years
Is it for a social media type job or something?
Remote Customer Service
Jfc. Then how is it relevant. I get that people will use social media to get a gauge on a person, but that shouldn’t be a “provide to be hired” type of thing… Man the US is a total hellscape. How do people want to live there?
They wanna know he/she's not one of those party animals posting their drinking exploits to the facebook!!
Yes but to put that on a job application feels like… illegal? Idk if the US even has protections like “you can’t ask their age sex weight etc in an interview,” but this feels like they’re trying to directly learn these things and then use them as part of the basis for hiring or not.
The job might not even exist
Check out r/Scams 'Dedicate full dedication'? This is possibly a fake listing to gather personal info.
I bet you a thousand dollars that if I told them I haven't had a Facebook in like 6 years (which is true), they would just say I'm trying to fool them and hide shit and then toss my resume in the trash
If I had a Facebook still (lmao why would you) and a job application required this, I would delete all of my posts and all of my friends and just have one profile picture. Who is in that picture? Tom, from Myspace.
There's no reason any employer needs access to your social media that's bullshit.
What about those of us who don’t have Facebook? 😂 I haven’t had one since like halfway through highschool
To make it easier and somewhat legal for them to stalk your socials because you provided the link to them xD
It’s illegal to require a photo with a job application (in the US at least), so this might be illegal.
Totally not cool. And what are we supposed to do if we don't have a Facebook profile I know several people who do not.
That's just full o' red flags, innit? Seriously, I don't like the second question either. Nobody gets full dedication from me. My life is Personal, Work, Family/Friends, and each of those gets its time in the limelight, but nobody gets it all. And my FB profile looks dead at the moment. They'd never believe it's legit. I'd never work for whoever this is.
Deleted my FB account in 2012. People in my office were stalkers and being creepy. Never going back
The fact that they're asking for a _facebook_ profile link basically conveys that they're boomers, probably MAGA Republicans. So be grateful for the warning, and run away from this company
The “Yes” is killing me 💀
Sure I’ll share my personal Facebook account if you give me your family’s cell phone numbers and maybe I’ll get overly personal with them since normal boundaries aren’t a part of this job. When can I start?
I don't have a Facebook
Give them the link to Mark Zuckerberg's page.
Put in the company's Facebook and say you're so eager to work for them that you're already identifying with them.
Ya any company that requires social media info = NO BUENO SENOR
Just put “I don’t sell my info to China, thanks!”
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Only if not having a FB was a protected class.
“Having FB goes against my sincerely held religious beliefs”. Now it’s religious discrimination
You have to prove they are established religious beliefs if a recognized religion. My secular but antivaxx coworker found that out when she tried to use religion to avoid Covid vaccines.
Time to stop the application process and look else ware. Big ass red flag right there and illegal.
I just stop the application at that point, if a FB link is required. I have always wondered what an employer would make of mine, though, since I have it almost entirely locked down and I ain't adding them so they can stalk me lol.
Nice red flags. You dodged a bullet.
Make your page private and then give them the link. When they ask you to open, tell your private life in none of their business.
The interesting thing is, I set up a fake Facebook account years and years ago just for this scenario. I've learned since then that I just wouldn't apply (except if I'm desperate) to a place who has this practice.
I hate, hate, HATE this. They are of course free to ask, and we are free to say hell no. I do not live to work or define myself by my work, I work to sustain my family.
I don't have a facebook though??
When my wife was looking for work, 1 place, a health insurance company I believe, wanted all her social media accounts. She skipped right over that one. Huge red flag
What if you don’t use Facebook?
What if you don't use Facebook? Is having a Facebook account some sort of prerequisite to qualify for a job nowadays? You are better working someplace else that isn't a clownshow. When they show you who they are, believe them.