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louisgray.com: louisgray.com: Is Social Media Keeping You Out Of Touch With Reality?

  • tojosan · 1 year ago
    Yes, social media is taking away from the solid things like resumes and more. It's also a distraction from physical world relationships at times. They key is to realize it's just another way to communicate and not the only way.

    Additionally, sites like LinkedIn should be encouraged by folks like us to have their site output some resumes perhaps. Also, a way to interchange work history would be great.
  • JoshMiller · 1 year ago
    Get new friends.

    Or hammer your existing ones over the head witht he idea of Web 2.0 until they cave. Then hammer them over the head with Web 3.0 because at that point they are "So behind the times, I mean who uses Twitter and Facebook anymore?" (this is in like 5 years).
  • IdoNotes · 1 year ago
    I have moved over to VisualCV for resume updating plus it has private and public ones. Quite an easy way to stay up to date i a professional look unlike linkedIn
  • Havinga · 1 year ago
    http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=does-consum...
    Roszak argues that humans can heal what he calls their “psychological alienation” from nature and build a more sustainable society if they recognize that we all have an innate emotional bond with the natural world.
    The basic premise is that we operate under an illusion that people are separate from nature, and that humans are more apt to derive comfort and even inspiration from contact with the natural world—with which they evolved over the millennia—than with the relatively recent construct of modern urban society.
  • Kari Rippetoe · 1 year ago
    Reality? But I thought social media was reality! ;-)

    Seriously, sometimes I do feel like I'm in my own little social media world, where I'm more popular than I am in "real life". It's great talking to people on Twitter, but I need to get outside and talk to them in a real, sit-down setting. So, I'm on the lookout for meetups and tweetups to attend in my area.

    Side note: wouldn't it be cool if LinkedIn had a feature where you could easily convert your profile into downloadable/printable resume?
  • CraigK · 1 year ago
    I think what frustrates me is just when having conversations about work and activities involved with work. They usually talk about government related stuff and finance stuff and I'm talking about commenting on blogs, and Twitter, Facebook, trying to engage with users and to then it sounds like a fake job and I do nothing all day. Anyone else have that whose involved with digital marketing?

    Craig
    www.budgetpulse.com
  • iankennedy · 1 year ago
    "my resume is months behind my LinkedIn profile at this point and I dread updating it. I dread it because it's so much easier and much more flexible to update my LinkedIn profile."

    Not sure if you noticed (I just did the other day) but if you click the PDF icon on your profile, you get a nice, resume format version of your LinkedIn profile which I personally would prefer to any Word doc resume I've ever seen.
  • steveballmer · 1 year ago
    Yes!
  • NeilOJWilliams · 1 year ago
    I sort of concur with this, especially the frustration at laggard friends. It means that lots of tools which *could* make my (and their) lives so much better are a dead end in terms of my social life, because only my work network (social media practitioners) are ever using them. Actually - this has meant me spending more time with social media geeks than my old friends. So the social web is actually CHANGING my reality.

    On the other hand, I haven't updated my LinkedIn profile because I've been applying for jobs lately, with the good ole CV.