Comment on Meta hypes AI friends as social media’s future, but users want real connections
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 6 days ago
JFC, this comment:
Gives me PTSD from my 2014 job search. I’d already left Facebook for the first time and wasn’t getting any responses to applications. After sleuthing around online, I learned this was now an HR thing where if they couldn’t find your full personal history on social media, immediate round file.
Gritting my teeth, I created a new account but did nothing with it. Still didn’t move the needle. I ended up having to take the pay cut to move to Texas, as being a known quantity with GateHouse got my foot in the door.
Neither I nor my then-wife wanted to leave Oregon for … Texas. But Facebook’s dominance forced it. In an alternate reality, I’d still be housed and in a place I actually like, possibly with my marriage not falling apart.
Fuck Facebook.