Zzzzz… Weak.
Curious how old you are? Wondering what your perspective is on that .. an older person looking in or younger person surrounded by it?
what difference does that make?
the very people responsible for those apps have started to question what they’ve done, some of them very vocal about it even.
I wonder who the first T-Nation member will be to lose it
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There have been some fruit loops on here that just disappear after posting night and day…
Just turned 42. It’s more how I see it warp people. The helpless addiction people have to their device(s) social media, etc… It’s absolutely disconcerting. Like seeing “parents” ignoring their children to feed their addiction.
Yep. Bill Gates didn’t allow his kids to have a cell phone. One of the founders of FB now regrets ever having helped bring the monster to fruition.
The current biggest hurdle is GDPR and California. With the added expectation that other states will soon follow, the allowance for out of country employees is currently shrinking a tad.
Within companies that don’t have the infrastructure in place to ensure data safety overseas (looking at like 90%+ of all companies here), you’re immediately dead in the water because they can’t support it. Within the larger companies that already operate globally, it’s not that big of a challenge, but you have to be an S tier employee to get that privilege. That’s why most of the people you see doing it are C suite.
There was that one British guy on here one night that accused me of doxxing him to his family or some shit. I’m literally travelling for work, reading it as I leave the shower, just laughing.
What data safety? Most servers are off site anyway with people logging in through portals and VPNs already, and any real sensitive jobs are done through intranets anyway, and those are things most people are not involved in.
I mean, I dunno, you’re in the staffing game so you have a better look at this than I do but I’m noticing MORE remote positions, even abroad, than less happening every year.
Social media might be new but idiots are not.
Screw accountability. Let’s blame the geeks.
Few of those got hit with the banhammer.
Raj was an idiot but easily one of the most interesting is this real life people ever. He was an Indian white supremacist. Our very own Clayton Bixby from Chappeles show.
In hindsight he was either serious and nuts or the most creative PWI troll ever laughing at those who argued with him on here.
Special shoutout to Zeb who I believe got banned eventually. We lost a lot of people that day since he had about half the accounts here.
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Nope just easier to see them now.
The thing is we can all talk about social media being bad or whatever but do any of us honestly believe it’s going anywhere?
Pretty sure I remember reading an article that the growth was mostly with with middle aged people and younger people were using it less and less.
Uhhh… most servers are cloud based these days. And the numbers are growing.
Intranets…? Those also mostly went dodo like 5-10 years ago.
Then it’s just because you’re noticing. More remote are available, but companies are specifically and intentionally scaling back on overseas as a direct result of GDPR and California version of GDPR.
Nah I think Zeb quit posting a bit after Trump got elected. He immediately couldn’t defend Trump’s actions and there was a DATABASE of gotcha on him critiquing the left, only to be silent when the GOP does it.
The difference of a perspective from someone immersed in a culture vs one who has some exposure but somewhat tangentially.
Basically availability bias vs selection bias
I’m equating the former as being that’s all you have available, the latter as all you’re choosing to see or apply disproportionate weight to
Neither are wrong per se, but their perspective is skewed by one thing or another; potentially, away from the mean or, well, a case of the forest for the trees in either case.
Maybe put it this way using the forest metaphor: say you’re walking in the woods and you find yourself in a group of hemlocks, if you were in the middle of this group of hemlocks, and it was large enough that you couldn’t see, say a grove of oaks, you would reasonable assume, after some time observing, and not seeing outside this particular section of the forest, the forest you’re in is all hemlocks. This’d be the availability bias.
Now, say you were on the outskirts of the aforementioned and, only focusing onto the group of hemlocks while other trees are visible and available for observation again putting disproportionate weight on the hemlocks.
When in reality, the forest is only made up of, say 15% hemlocks which all happen to grow in clusters, so to speak, and the forest is larger, and more complex, than you’re assuming it is, based on your, limited, observation, of only, say, 2% of all the hemlocks.
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So you’re observing it from the outside
This is an interesting comment .. in what way? From what to what? What I mean is, how do you think or see normal behavior and in what way does it warp people from that and into what?
Couple questions on this one:
How do you know they’re: a.) helpless and b.) addicted?
Which people? All people? Some types of people? in what proportion would you say? Why do you say it?
I see what you’re talking about, but I am not convinced on the proportions tbh. And also for how long of their lives? i.e. temporally, does any individual’s usage decrease as time progresses, say, in months? Years? etc. What’s the distribution of usage across age groups across time .. if it remains fairly constant (i.e. remains disproportionately young over a span of 10 years or so) will tell you that it’s a young person problem and tends to dissipate over time as individuals mature and their lives progress. There are a few ways to look at it, really, this is just one example.
I see this too. But I also see the opposite tbh. Selection bias and in what proportion?
I’m too want to hold out on this as long as possible – maybe until my son can finance his own (is responsible enough to have his own) .. or at least get one that he can only use to call us/emergencies. If he’s disciplined enough, he’ll be able to handle/afford to finance his own. It’s basically a carrot…
Ironic that he was so opposed to dead individuals voting democrat, but created fake accounts to swing the forum towards Trump.
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In all fairness, it isn’t simply social media and technology…parents have been ignoring their children for centuries, ha.
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Perhaps but I’d argue not to this extent. These weaklings are constantly tethered to their devices. I see a lot of future gang bang girls thanks to the near complete lack of father / daughter bonds
Complains about social media, while using it.
Things just turned creepy…