On a side note, I live and work in the Silicon Valley and have the
obligatory LinkedIn page (more professional and productive than FB, BTW,
and there is a small Healey group on there, too). Anyway, occasionally
a recruiter will see my profile and send me some job info. Although I'm
generally happy where I'm at, I'll take a shot now and then because,
well, just because. Most of the postings are from some 'rapidly
growing,' 'next FB,' etc. kind of place. A lot of them are some kind of
gaming site (Zynga-like). They usually send a 'quiz,' and often there's
a question like 'are you a gamer?'; i.e. do you spend every free moment
in a dark room playing some stupid facsimile of real life, instead of,
say, actually living? Last time, I answered 'No. I drive fast cars and
fly airplanes.'
Wonder why I never hear back from these places?
bs
Mike Brouillette wrote:
> If you think Facebook is an issue, try foursquare. We had a business
> associate that would let you know where he was at any given minute.
> (at home depot buying a screwdriver, picking up the laundry...) We
> needed to have an intervention with him and when that didn't totally
> work, 10 of us signed up and pummeled him with every little thing we
> were doing.
>
> He has since stopped...
>
>
>
>> Tom, I am not trying to offend anyone here on this subject. I see
>> people who
>> post on there every couple hours with terms such as . I am eating
>> dinner or
>> I am going to work or It may rain today or I think I will sleep in. The
>> thing is they get no response to these quotes. Then there are the one
>> who
>> join Farmville and Family Fued and then they send you apps for this
>> crap.
>> These are the ones I am saying have no life . I was on Facebook about
>> a year
>> and I find this Healey list much more interesting than Facebook.
>> Sorry I was
>> being judgmental in your eyes or others. I will just say no more about
>> Facebook then.
>>
>> On a different note I had a girlfriend who had four kids and they
>> were all
>> addicted to Myspace. I can tell you for a fact they had no life outside
>> Myspace. They would sit on a computer 14 hours a day and not
>> socialize in
>> public. Thats not healthy. It seems Myspace is for a younger
>> generation and
>> Facebook is used by 30 and up.
>>
>> Personally I get more pleasure from a drive in the country by myself
>> . Shoot
>> I would rather go to walmart and talk to the greeter than to spend
>> that much
>> time on a computer. Perhaps I just can't sit still.
>>
>> I knew this subject would raise some issues and I probably shouldn't
>> have
>> gone there.
>> _______________________________________________
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