Comment by herbig
13 years ago
Don't rely on Facebook as a communications channel.
If a friend dies and you only found out about via a personal Facebook message, fault your other friends for attending the funeral without you, or stop pretending this person was a valued friend.
Job openings should be emailed to you directly if you're a good fit. If it's via Facebook, it's probably a copy/pasted recruiter message, you're not special.
Mostly, if you're using a service every day, don't complain when you suddenly realize you don't know how it works.
If you're using a service every day, and a lot of people don't understand how it works, I'd suggest that's a flaw with the design of the product or its features.
When my best friend passed suddenly, her family asked me to get in touch with everyone I could think of. I wanted to use every means possible to make sure people found out about her death personally, rather than seeing posts on Facebook. For people who I didn't have a number or email for, I tried using facebook message to ask them to contact me. Many of these got lost in the "others" folder, but I got through to some. Incidentally, this is how I found out about the "others" folder, because I was receiving sympathy and questions regarding the service from people I didn't know.
Some people make an impact on your life, but you may lose contact with them. That doesn't make them any less important to you. Her funeral was well attended by many who hadn't seen or spoke to her in a while, but they were there because they loved her.
I'm not very old, but I've found that as I age and move around, I tend to lose contact with people I still feel very strongly connected to and love very much. One of the main reasons I still have a Facebook account is that it helps me stay in contact, which is something I'm admittedly poor at.
The problem isn't exclusively Facebook. It's a problem with spam filtering and the dangers of false positives.
> Job openings should be emailed to you directly
This scenario happened to me: I emailed my resume to a company. The company later emailed me back a few months later, asking me to come in to an interview. However, that email landed in my spam folder.
I just happened to check my spam folder and not click "Delete All" as I usually do.
I owe my entire professional career to this one lucky instance. Today, I check all my spam. I don't care how good Gmail's (or whoever's) spam filter is. One wrongly filtered message can have serious impact.
>Job openings should be emailed to you directly if you're a good fit. If it's via Facebook, it's probably a copy/pasted recruiter message, you're not special.
In fairness, the overwhelming majority of the emailed job openings are also copypasta's from recruiters.