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A Twitter user received a 351-page printout of all the "objectionable" tweets they Liked
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Why did he offer a Twitter account to his employer to review?
Did he have a Twitter account with his real name and identifiable personal details?
Did he have a Twitter account with his real name and identifiable personal details?
Sorry, but that's never gonna happen. So why not just control what information you send out to the world?
Firstly, how is this legal. Secondly, this is why you should have your privacy settings for facebook set up, and for twitter, just don't use your real name! Oh, yes, and if an employer asks for your social media accounts, refuse, and walk - you don't want to work for that company.
Applying for medical school and then residency and then jobs I've completely scrubbed, de-identified, and shut down my social media presence years ago. Companies have been looking for this kind of information for a long time.
Honestly I don't miss spending an hour or more of my day on facebook/instagram/whatever. It always was a waste of time. If I want conversation I can do better in real life, here, or on discord.
The information in this case is perfectly fine, it's just interpreted incorrectly.
Yep
Also according to the twitter replies this does seem like it could be illegal in the UK somehow
How does one ever guarantee that their information is interpreted correctly? It's ultimately outside of your control.
resetera poster Venatio says it'll never happen, wrap it up everyone
Yeah this is my view. What you say on the internet matters. People really do need to learn that. Its not some alternate dimension that separates you from responsibility or consequences.
On the other hand, this is clearly interpreted poorly. A like on a tweet about some guy winning a Who Wants to be a Millionaire game is really fucking stupid.
I mean, its always been outside of your control how a company chooses who they hire behind the scenes really. Not saying its right, just saying its not all that different.
If the social media combing is done/verified by an actual human being then at least that's ok🤷‍♂️
You got me. Now tell me about how you're striving to make this practice illegal on a global scale.
Just gonna go through my FB history and delete everything now.
Thankfully i've never opened a twitter
Thankfully i've never opened a twitter
Back at my old gig and before there was an app for it, I was the person reviewing people's facebook accounts before and after interviews. This was several years ago.
This kind of stuff makes me terrified. I've struggled with mental illness and the effects of abuse all my adult life, and as a result, I've learned some poor lessons and not been the best person on-line. Stuff like this makes me afraid I'll never be employed even if I work this stuff out.
It feels like everything is hopeless for me.
It feels like everything is hopeless for me.
Just don't post on social media with an account that can be traced back to your real-world self.
It would really hurt the site to not get revenue from lurkers and that would suck. People should just be more careful what they post and beyond that laugh that a bunch of sad nerds have nothing better to do haha
It most evidently is.
Then it's just giving weights to words, but there's obviously no natural language processing involved in any of this shit
Surface-level social media searches, sure, especially if you're in a more visible position. But If your company's HR department is contracting with a broken, easily gamed service like FAMA then they are trash and you should probably go work somewhere else if that's an option.
My wife worked for a background screening company. They have social media checks but they only go as far to make sure you aren't part of a white supremacist group or follow known Terrorist organisations.
She's shocked by this.
She's shocked by this.
This is pretty insane. I think there need to be new laws on data collection. Its nice that alot of websites now ask you to opt in to advertising cookies and you can reject all.
The algorithm strikes again.
just think about it: instead of taxes we have more investors that give money to these idiots.
just think about it: instead of taxes we have more investors that give money to these idiots.
As one of the tweets points out, a background check may be required for a job, so opting out might not be useful.
Is the email address you use for twitter, facebook, instagram, etc.. the same as your bank account? There are so many ways to connect this stuff beyond just putting in your real name.
What good would that do? They'd register lurkers and then do their thing.
I don't understand how it knew his Twitter account actually belonged to him, unless his account was registered with an email address he used on his resume or soemthing.
This is going to be interesting going forward because most people don't really fit into the concept of an ideal person, and they tend to do and say things in private that are unsavory. Real people are dirty and rough around the edges in several ways. For example, will we be unhirable in the future because we waste way too much time on a video-game forum?
It'll be interesting to see if there ends up being a class of untouchables because they were simply too honest about themselves on Twitter, or liked or said things that don't fall into the current cultural perception of "quality person"? I don't mean people who go around liking Neo Nazi's either. I mean, more like just having conversations online where it becomes obvious that you're not a 1950's Sitcom Dad, but a real person who's neither well spoken or perfectly intelligent.
All it takes to solve this "problem" is to have HR departments not run by complete idiots. So who knows, I guess.
Their Twitter links to a WordPress page, which they likely provided to the employer. Pretty easy to link the two from there.