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Re: Is it wise to state political/religious preference on facebook?

Scrooge McDuck — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:18:15 GMT

"Familiarity breeds contempt."

Re: Is it wise to state political/religious preference on facebook?

Stephen — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:39:57 GMT

RogueMerc:

I have seen various people state their political preference on facebook. Most of the time, it is the usual 'liberal, conservative, moderate, progressive' or other usual labels. We all know that libertarians are greatly outnumbered by the others. I am also trying to get a new job. I heard that employers sometimes look at facebook accounts of prospective employees. As market oriented as libertarianism is, many people have this bizarro pyscho hatred for it.

At the same time, I hate to act like a coward.

I think it's best to be expedient and stay under the radar until you get yourself established.

Re: Is it wise to state political/religious preference on facebook?

Giant_Joe — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:07:14 GMT

RogueMerc:

I have seen various people state their political preference on facebook. Most of the time, it is the usual 'liberal, conservative, moderate, progressive' or other usual labels. We all know that libertarians are greatly outnumbered by the others. I am also trying to get a new job. I heard that employers sometimes look at facebook accounts of prospective employees. As market oriented as libertarianism is, many people have this bizarro pyscho hatred for it.

At the same time, I hate to act like a coward.

I go out there informed and proud. If someone doesn't like me for my beliefs, screw 'em. As some guy on some video once said "Making a difference with my life is more important than the problems in my life"

Re: Is it wise to state political/religious preference on facebook?

Sam Armstrong — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:54:31 GMT

I find that panarchist is both accurate and isn't associated with all the negatives people think about.

Re: Is it wise to state political/religious preference on facebook?

Sebastian — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:30:04 GMT

Daniel Muffinburg:

Shakaman:

Kenneth:

The employer sucks if he bases standards on political views rather than ability. I would personally not want to be employed by someone who is like that. I don't think I'll be comfortable working with a bunch of hard statists either.

I agree, but in these times I'd rather work with some statist instead of being unproductive and go on welfare.

I'd make the choice to work with them and just use my energy elsewhere where it has more effect (and the money you earn!).

I disagree. A person's political views tell a lot about the person. Would any of you hire a self-proclaimed socialist? What do yo think are the chances are of this employee starting a union or causing similar trouble at your factory?

I was under the expression we are talking about the views of the person and not actual action that they start a small revolution (and in Sweden they already got unions, for anything and everything). To answer the question if I'd personally hire that person, yes. I consider the gain that (s)he is working with me is far grather for my cause then for (s)he go on welfare and have time to "think".

Re: Is it wise to state political/religious preference on facebook?

bloomj31 — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:16:46 GMT

RogueMerc:

No place in particular. I will be looking for work in web design, web programming, interactive media, 3d animation and things that are related.

Guess you gotta scope it out and see what the prevailing attitudes are with the people you're going to be working with/working for. lol, you could always keep everything blank until you know the coast is clear. That would be the cautious way to play it.

Re: Is it wise to state political/religious preference on facebook?

RogueMerc — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:12:12 GMT

bloomj31:

Depends, where are you going to be applying for work?

No place in particular. I will be looking for work in web design, web programming, interactive media, 3d animation and things that are related.

Re: Is it wise to state political/religious preference on facebook?

Bert — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:07:48 GMT

All my managers have a Facebook.

Re: Is it wise to state political/religious preference on facebook?

krazy kaju — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:01:43 GMT

Most employers don't actually look at your facebook.

Re: Is it wise to state political/religious preference on facebook?

bloomj31 — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:51:59 GMT

See, if you were going to apply for work at Blueline976 Inc. it wouldn't be such a bad thing to identify yourself as libertarian.

Re: Is it wise to state political/religious preference on facebook?

Caley McKibbin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:51:36 GMT

Blueline976:

If I were a businessman, I'd hire all the libertarians and market anarchists I could. They would be the ones helping out my business .

No kidding.

Re: Is it wise to state political/religious preference on facebook?

Blueline976 — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:50:40 GMT

If I were a businessman, I'd hire all the libertarians and market anarchists I could. They would be the ones helping out my business .

Re: Is it wise to state political/religious preference on facebook?

bloomj31 — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:40:52 GMT

Depends, where are you going to be applying for work?

Re: Is it wise to state political/religious preference on facebook?

Bert — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:34:30 GMT

I have mine set as "Anarcho-Capitalist". I switched to that from "Libertarian" to distance myself from the "libertarians" of the Fox News club. For fun I had it set to "(A) + $", but the (A) was an actual character I stole from someone else so it was actually circled.

Every time we hire someone new I look on Facebook to find out who they are before I meet them.

Re: Is it wise to state political/religious preference on facebook?

RogueMerc — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:17:15 GMT

Well, with a socialist, in the case of a factory job, he most likely would consider a union. But if for example, you ran a very small business where all employees, the owner and the customers were all personal, that would be much less likely to happen.

I would personally put job qualifications and work ethics first if I were hiring.

But suppose you were in the position of looking for work and you had to pay the bills some way, some how. The question is would you suck in your pride a bit?