Why You Won’t Find Me On “Social” Media

I’ve come to understand that some companies’ HR departments now, by default, do a so-called “social media check” on job applicants, sometimes even going as far as tossing an application in the bin if no such presence is found.

And all I can think to myself is “what. the. actual. fuck?“.

Now, this page might age like milk (being written late March, 2023), but looking at what’s happening to Twitter (after that buffoon Musk bought it and started disassembling all safeguards and verifications, and driving it into the ground as if all the dictatorships in the world started a little financial support pool for the entitled little so-and-so, to ensure no more Arab Springs will ever have a chance to rear their ugly heads anymore), the fumbling and stumbling at MetaBook, the dead of Google+, the take-over of advertisers and “influencers” (ugh) at The Insta…

… why should I bother?

I mean, I’m not so conceited that I think my life is worth publishing anything about, for family-matters I have WhatsApp, email, and this crazy invention called a “phone” (anyone remember those?), so what’s the use of even having a Social Media account?

And this may paint me as a boomer (which I’m not—I’m OC Gen X, thankyouverymuch), but I’ve seen the advent, rise and disappearance (or simply their descent into utter irrelevance) of public platforms like LiveJournal (I still have my original account), MySpace (never bothered), tumblr (still some gems to be found on there), even tried my hand at keeping my own self-hosted “blog” (now there’s a blast from the past, and the long-ago-deleted roots of this website), and found that my life just isn’t interesting enough to keep the world at large informed about every month, let alone by the day or every frickin’ hour.

So in short: What I do in private ain’t nunnaya, and that’s that.

Right now, Twitter is turning into a cesspool of right-wing, fascist, nazist, anti-semitist, mysogynist crap. Do I want to associate myself with that? Nuh-uh.

Facebook? Great for klan-ma and klan-pa to spew their antivaxx, anti-everyone crap on.

Tik-tok? Do I even need to elaborate?

YouTube? Yah, sure, make 10 minute videos about all the nothing (or the not-nothing that, remember: nunnaya?) I do every week.

Expecting everyone to have a Social Media account is, like, 10 years out of date. Most people these days have an account just to keep up with news, celebrities dating, or to throw shade and cause discord (or worse yet: they’re influencers, a dystopian concept of capitalism gone haywire). But most sane people keep their presence to themselves, because of all of the toxicity most platforms have started spewing.

I already hate the fact that, as an employee in my country of residence, I’m actually expected to have a LinkedIn account (have you seen the inane crap that’s posted there, day after day after day?)

So, yeah, fuck that. And should I apply for a job where you, as an HR employee, insist on me having a Social Media account just for you to consider me worthy of consideration, fuck YOU, too, then, because obviously you have no idea what makes a person actually worth considering for the specified job.

Also, I’m pretty sure this would be considered something called “discrimination”, ya might wanna look into that with your legal department.

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